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When you’re highlighting entire rows or columns in MS Excel the program will let you know how many have been selected as you go.
But, have you ever noticed that you can’t get that same information when you’re highlighting a range of cells?
I mean, we often need just a partial row and column and that handy-dandy little counter doesn’t appear in those instances.
What to do, what to do… manually count?
Let’s hope not since that’s not really feasible in a lot of cases… So now what?
Well, while you may not have noticed it, Excel is letting you know just how many rows and columns are involved in your selection.
The catch is that you just have to know where and when to look.
Next time you highlight a range of cells take a look in the Name Box (left of the Formula bar).
As long as you still hold down the mouse button (or shift key for those who select cells with the keyboard) the Name Box will display the number of rows and columns involved.
This is one of those super-easy tricks – it’s absolutely nothing new to learn – just pointing out information that Excel was providing to you. (Although, I’ve got to say, that it does seem like a “sneaky” way of giving information – but whatever works.)
So just remember, when you release the button the information disappears so be sure to look before you let go! |
Worldwatch Paper #117: Saving the Forests: What Will It Take?
Alan Thein Durning
Two thirds of the planet's original forests have been felled, and despite a decade of well-meaning global initiatives, the chainsaw is working faster than ever. To halt deforestation will require no less than restructuring three features of the modern economy: property rights to forests, pricing of forest products, and political power over the fate of forests, according to a new study by the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.C.
Trees are worth a lot more standing than as lumber, author Alan Thein Durning concludes in Saving the Forests: What Will It Take? For instance, the prescription drug industry alone likely earns more than $100 billion in annual sales of drugs with active ingredients derived from forests; no one knows how many new medications may develop from forest products yet untested. Forests' flood prevention, watershed stabilization, and fisheries protection services are each worth billions more.
But because such services as flood control fail to show up in conventional accounting systems, these benefits, and trees themselves, remain undervalued. Durning urges governments to tax, rather than subsidize, forest destruction, so that more of the value of forests is reflected in the price of wood.
The report also recommends user fees. Charging visitors to U.S. national forests just $3 a day would generate more revenue than selling timber from those lands does now. The proceeds would be a powerful incentive for the U.S. Forest Service to preserve forests instead of promoting timber cutting and mining.
"Three obstacles have blocked forest protection," says Durning. "Nations disregard the rights of tropical forest dwellers. Market pricing does not reveal the full cost of wood. And forest policies are shaped by the few who profit from deforestation. Unless these things change, the forests will continue to fall."
The number one priority for creating a sustainable forest economy is a property rights system that allies the interests of forest people with the health of forest ecosystems. Durning shows that Third World reforestation initiatives routinely fail when the forest land is under the exclusive control of the state rather than of local residents. But thousands of recent examples show that "joint management" arrangements, in which residents benefit from forest use and protection, produce tangible results in reforesting and forest protection.
As of late 1993, some 10,000 villages in India were sharing management responsibilities, in an area of perhaps 1.5 million hectares. The concept has been gaining popularity elsewhere in Asia and Africa.
Meanwhile, a few nations in the American tropics have taken more decisive strides toward forest tenure reform. Under intense grassroots pressure, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela have all recognized land rights of tribes that have inhabited and conserved forests since time immemorial. In recent years, each of these countries has demarcated vast areas in the Amazon basin as indigenous homelands--the most hopeful sign for the world's forests in years.
Goods and services from the woods provide more money and jobs than chopping down trees, Durning finds. The scenic and recreational benefits of forests earn billions of dollars, for both the world's growing nature tourism industry and for local residents. In the U.S., the market value of nontimber forest products--berries, decorative plants, mushrooms, and so forth--may exceed that of solid wood harvested from U.S. national forests--$1 billion in 1992.
The market for just one forest product from Southeast Asia--rattan, the palm stems used to make wicker furniture--is worth $3 billion annually. In Belize, expert gatherers of forest products can earn two to ten times as much per hectare as farmers who clear the forest for crops. Without secure control of these resources, however, their potential for sustainable employment will be lost.
Ecological pricing is the second priority for creating a sustainable forest economy. Virgin timber is priced far below full cost. For instance, the price of teak does not reflect the costs of flooding that rapacious teak logging has caused in Myanmar; nor does the price of old-growth fir from the U.S. Pacific Northwest include losses suffered by the fishing industry because logging destroys salmon habitat. Those losses are estimated at $2,150 per wild chinook salmon in the Columbia River, when future benefits to sports and commercial fishers are counted.
Few attempts have been made to calculate the full, ecological prices of forest products, but they would undoubtedly be astronomical. One hectare of Malaysian forest is estimated to provide carbon storage services--which help prevent climate change--worth more than $3,000 over the long term. A mature forest tree in India is worth $50,000, estimates the Center for Science and Environment in New Delhi. And the full value of a hamburger produced on pasture cleared from rain forests may be about $200.
Forests' greatest value is probably the diversity of life they contain. Forests harbor the wild relatives of dozens of crops: These related strains are crop breeders' first recourse in protecting crops against new pests and diseases. Export sales of coffee, cocoa beans, and other crops that trace their origins to forests in the tropics and sub-tropics exceeded $20 billion in 1991.
Unfortunately, current government policies in both North and South accelerate forest loss by subsidizing sales of timber at fire-sale prices. In the U.S., for example, the Forest Service, which long denied subsidizing logging, proposed in April 1993 that it would stop selling timber from 62 of the 156 national forests it administers because those forests had consistently lost money on timber sales.
To establish ecological pricing, Saving the Forests makes clear the goverment's need to stop subsidizing deforestation, and start using taxes, user fees, and tariffs to make ecological costs apparent in the money economy.
Political change is the third priority for creating a permanent forest economy, the report suggests. In particular, unless the viselike grip of big timber interests--and miners, ranchers, and other resource extractors--can be broken, all bets for forest conservation are off.
In Malaysia, round-the-clock clear-cutting is driven by the fact that logging licenses are a chief form of patronage for politicians. Officials distribute logging concessions to loyal supporters who level the trees for quick profits--estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
To varying degrees, this bond between timber money and political power pervades all the world's major timber economies, Saving the Forests shows. From 1985 to 1992, in the U.S. timber states of Washington and Oregon, the wood products industry outspent environmentalists six-to-one in congressional candidate contributions; those grateful members of Congress set higher logging targets for national forests in their districts than the Forest Service itself recommended.
"The ultimate challenge," Durning concludes, "is to make ecological services sufficiently remunerative for all forest groups--indigenous tribes and Third World peoples, logging towns and forest agencies--that they act as defenders of forests." |
India Summit Strives for Global Access to Climate-Friendly Technologies
India hosted a high-level technology summit in Delhi last week with the aim of supporting progress toward a global agreement on "climate-friendly" technologies.
Among the areas of consensus outlined in the summit's final statement, several governments expressed interest in a network of technology innovation centers.
"The notion that we should have global centers for climate technology innovation is an important idea that has found its place in the declaration," said Jairam Ramesh, India's Minister for Environment and Forests, who noted that the summit made progress on several key topics that will confront governments at the U.N. climate negotiations held in Copenhagen, Denmark, this December.
Climate-friendly technologies and methods to facilitate their rapid uptake, especially in developing countries, are at the center of global climate negotiations. These technologies, which include solar power, smart grid, and carbon sequestration mechanisms, enable the use of clean and renewable power, greater energy and water efficiency, and more sustainable agricultural practices. They also include technologies that support adaptation to the increasing impacts of climate change.
"Vast reservoir" of innovation
Hosted jointly by India's Ministry of Environment and Forests and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the summit was attended by 58 visiting delegations, of which 30 were at the ministerial or vice-ministerial level, as well as by technology experts and representatives of government, industry, and civil society. At an accompanying exhibition, 148 companies showcased green technology developments from around the world.
The proposed innovation centers would allow globally available technologies to be adapted to local conditions and situations, Ramesh said. Such a network would draw on the "vast reservoir" of models of technology cooperation initiated by whatever agreement is reached in Copenhagen.
"We need innovation cooperation, shaped by local needs and rooted in the local context," said Ambuj Sagar, a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, who is developing the proposal. "This needs us to think about the whole innovation cycle, one that is driven by technology needs of developing countries rather than the technological agenda of industrialized countries."
Jonathan Pershing, U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change, also proposed creating a "hub and core" of expertise and best practice that could become a global resource for policymakers and implementers to exchange information and experience.
"We are looking to build capacity and provide additional training with regard to these kinds of technologies," Pershing said.
Such a center - or centers - would have a physical presence, he said. The main goal would be to provide "information, tools, and practical expertise" for environmentally sustainable technologies for mitigation and adaptation. In addition, there would be a "core" group of technical experts, practitioners, and specialists able to travel to and deliver expertise to any specific country.
Cooperative clean energy relationships were also established at the meeting. These included a technology cooperation agreement between India and Norway, a memorandum of understanding on smart-grid collaboration between British and Indian industry, and an announcement by Philip Hunt, Minister of State for the U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change, that his country intends to establish three centers of innovation worldwide, including one in India. The International Energy Agency also highlighted its recently launched global forum for International Low Carbon Energy Technology collaboration.
The summit came in the wake of an earlier agreement on climate change cooperation signed between India and China last week, which includes the intention to collaborate on technology development and demonstration in various sectors.
Intellectual property dilemmaSummit participants achieved less consensus on the issue of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), in particular how to deploy climate-friendly technologies rapidly and at scale while still allowing for fair compensation. Poorer countries seeking to use these technologies argue that they will, in many cases, be hindered by the high costs payable to innovating individuals or
organizations. In the past, mechanisms have been created to circumvent such costs when particular technologies serve the greater good, for example with HIV drugs.
"Climate-friendly and environmentally sound technologies should be viewed as global public goods," said Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the opening of the conference. "[T]his means IPR should balance rewards for innovators with the need for the common good of mankind."
To this end, India restated its proposal for the establishment of a global fund to purchase such IPRs and distribute them as global goods where they are needed.
"We do not see why we cannot balance the interests [of the innovator] with the interests of humanity as a whole. Why can't we use the international agreement to create a mechanism through which these technologies can be purchased and made available through public goods. Is that not possible?" asked Shyam Saran, India's Special Envoy for Climate Change.
Vijay Sharma, Secretary of India's Ministry of Environment and Forests, said at the conference's close that discussions remained inconclusive on this point, and that the issue would "have to be further considered before a conclusion is reached."
Finding the money
Mechanisms to finance the upfront costs of rapid and sufficient technology deployment also remain a major stumbling block. Although no concrete decisions were made at the summit, speakers highlighted the importance of industrial countries coming forward with funds.
"Developed countries must step forward with financial support," said Solheim. "Such technologies are not available at affordable costs, for developing countries, especially the Least Developed Countries."
For India alone, McKinsey and Co. has estimated that as much as US$49.2 billion annually in technology investments would be needed to support halving emissions by 2030. Globally, such investments would near $600-700 billion per year, and at least double this figure by 2030, according to Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Deputy Director of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.
Speakers also highlighted the importance of engaging the private sector and encouraged governments to create the right incentive systems to absorb the technologies and to start implementing the technologies to bring down costs.
"The private sector has the resources," said Richard Jones, Deputy Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, who explained the importance of creating the right political and market signals for investment. "[Businesses] have to buy in. Unless they believe in the program, it won't take off."
Mohamed Nasheed, President of the Maldives, left delegates with a stirring message of leadership, saying that countries with the foresight to "green" themselves today would be the leaders of tomorrow. He encouraged all nations to take bold steps to signal their wish to shift toward a green economy.
A low-lying island nation, the Maldives is on the frontline of climate change impacts. A temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius is predicted to raise sea levels enough to submerge the country. Highlighting national plans to become carbon neutral in a decade, Nasheed said, "in the Maldives, we want to focus less on our plight and more on our potential."
Nasheed called on India to take leadership in the same way, praising the country's recently announced solar strategy. "India led the world in the 1970s in the green agricultural revolution," he said, proposing that the country now lead the world in the "green power revolution."
Anna da Costa is a Worldwatch Institute fellow based in New Delhi.
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School Leaving Dates
This is the last Friday in June in the school year in which a child reaches the age of 16.
Until that date
Parents must ensure their child's participation in education at school or otherwise
Employers may not employ a child full-time
Training providers may not provide full-time Government sponsored training |
Blockbuster Plots: Pure & Simple
by Martha Alderson, M.A.
Illusion Press, 2004
Reviewed by Beth Morrow
Copyright 2006 - All
Don't have problems plotting? Think a
book on characterization, theme, editing or synopsis might help your
writing more? Do yourself a favor and don’t dismiss Blockbuster
Plots: Pure & Simple on the merits of title alone.
True--the majority of the book focuses on
plot, how to go about discovering the one hiding in your story and strengthening
crucial details to help it become, well, the blockbuster plot you envision. But
throughout the book, Alderson provides more than plotting activities--she also
gives lots of insightful writing advice that help you think of ways to improve
your story in different, dynamic ways.
While the book boasts twenty three chapters
(each only a few pages) and six appendices, the crux of the information focuses
on two separate but equally important elements of storytelling: scene and plot.
Alderson shares that her experience in trying
to "….[pin] down the elusive concept of plot to the point where I could actually
"see" it (9)" took her on a search for ways to encapsulate the notion of plot
into something concrete. Part of Alderson's discovery, the scene tracker, is the
focus of the first meaty section of the book. As a result of her research,
Alderson has distilled the fiction scene into eight critical components:
scene/summary, setting, character emotional development, goal, dramatic action,
conflict, change and thematic detail. With the help of classic and contemporary
fictional excerpts, Alderson takes us step-by-step through the process of
learning to use the scene tracker--a visual chart incorporating all eight
elements--on other works then invites us to transfer that knowledge to our own
writing. The definitions and details are thorough and show the writer just how
and where their works-in-progress might need more attention.
The second section of the book incorporates
the scene tracker, another concrete representation of the elusively-abstract
enigma known as plot. Alderson begins with a lengthy yet pointed definition of
plot and from there two slightly different physical, visual representations of
the direction of plot in a story. Being familiar with the "W" method of
plotting, I wasn't expecting to learn too much new material, but Alderson
pleasantly surprised me by giving me a few different ways to think of the actual
physical setup of the line in order to help plot a little more effectively.
Additionally, she provides some mathematical parameters for helping writers
consider the length of their story and the corresponding number of scenes for
the necessary sections of the story for maximum impact.
If plots aren't your cup of tea, or maybe if
they are but you're willing to look at another interpretation of how to get more
mileage from them for your story, Blockbuster Plots is an excellent place
Beth Morrow has mastered the art of mentally plotting
(fiction, of course) while maintaining a fašade of attention--even at the most
boring meetings. When she isn't writing fiction, she's freelancing. Her latest
offering for writers, on the differences in male/female speech patterns, will be
in the October 2006 issue of the Romance Writers Report. Visit her on the web |
The men behind Old White
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- From a historical perspective, it's hard to figure out exactly who got the better end of the deal when The Greenbrier's original owners commissioned Charles Blair Macdonald to build a world-class golf course at the resort 100 years ago.
Macdonald, often referred to as "the father of American golf architecture,'' certainly didn't need the work (he'd already turned 57) or the money (he never charged for his services).
However, Macdonald surely was intrigued by the prospect of building a links course in such a location that would not only attract the influential but also expose a wide range of people to the grand game he loved - all the more reasons to massage his own oversized ego.
Meanwhile, the owners of The Greenbrier (the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad) realized their existing nine-hole course was insufficient, and were intent on increasing clientele from northern states. Having a renowned architect like Macdonald on their side (as well as his protégé, Seth Raynor) was nothing short of a hole-in-one.
So when the Old White course opened to much fanfare in April of 1914, each side got pretty much what it wanted. The Greenbrier had a course that received national acclaim (and nearly a century later, a coveted PGA Tour event), and Macdonald could pontificate about yet another of his accomplishments.
Macdonald, who lived to the ripe old age of 83, certainly was an interesting sort.
An American of serious Scottish descent from a wealthy family, he was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in 1855 and raised in Chicago. At age 16 he was sent to St. Andrews, Scotland, for his education - his first brush with the game of golf, which he recalled as "stupid and silly'' in his book, "Scotland's Gift - Golf.''
Charlie, as he was known, was introduced by his grandfather to Old Tom Morris of the storied Royal and Ancient Golf Club, and Morris helped develop Macdonald's game. Macdonald often played rounds with Young Tom Morris, a four-time British Open champ.
When Macdonald returned to Chicago in 1874, he went to work at the Board of Trade, became a leading socialite and often bemoaned the absence of golf in his own country. He traveled to Europe regularly to play some of the best British courses.
When Chicago hosted the World's Fair in 1892, Macdonald was asked to lay out a short, seven-hole course. Based on that course's popularity, he was asked to design two more, the latter in Wheaton, Ill., becoming the Chicago Golf Club, which opened in 1893 as the first club in the United States with an official 18-hole layout.
All the while, Macdonald maintained his interest in playing the game and was one of the country's top amateurs. After complaining about inconsistent rules and the lack of a true national governing body, he helped five prominent clubs join to form the Amateur Golf Association of the United States, which later became the U.S. Golf Association.
In 1895 at the Newport Golf Club in Rhode Island, Macdonald won the first U.S. Amateur, prevailing by a whopping 12 and 11 score in the final.
Shortly after the turn of the century, Macdonald started competing less, as he was bitten by the bug for design. A consummate perfectionist, he was determined to build bigger and better courses, including his crowning achievement, the National Golf Links of America in Southampton, N.Y., which opened in 1910.
"To call Macdonald a golf course architect would be like calling Thomas Edison an electrician,'' wrote author Jim Noyes in a 2006 article in Golf Course Architecture magazine. "He was much more than that. ... He understood that most golfers were choppers and insisted that good design offer a challenge to the scratch player and enjoyment to the others, a concept lost on many of today's designers.''
His layouts were known for modeling holes from some of the most famous European courses, which he studied extensively.
So it was in 1913, when Macdonald was retained by The Greenbrier to build a state-of-the-art course on its grounds. Old White's No. 8 hole was inspired by the Redan in North Berwick, No. 13 by the Alps at Prestwick and No. 15 by the Eden at St. Andrews - all gleaned from Scottish layouts.
Actually, Macdonald didn't do much of the heavy lifting, so to speak, in Old White's construction, deferring to his budding assistant, Raynor.
An article in GolfClubAtlas.com put it this way: "As was his custom, Macdonald . . . had Raynor perform the lion's share of both the initial work and the subsequent refinements. Macdonald was surely pleased by the prospect of building a resort course that would attract decision makers from afar.
"Along with the Mid Ocean Club in Bermuda, this creation was the only other true outpost course Macdonald designed. To its detriment, it was built on the rockiest site with which he ever worked. To its benefit, the low humidity and comfortable summer temperatures made it ideal for both growing grass and playing golf through the summer months.''
The course opened to rave reviews, and President Woodrow Wilson was one of the first people to play Old White in April of 1914.
"The New Golf Links at White Sulphur Springs are beyond a doubt one of the finest courses in the country,'' wrote author H.J. Whigham in a Town and Country magazine article.
By 1915, Macdonald was pretty much done with designing courses, and handed much of his business over to Raynor, though he remained in touch with his pupil and often offered advice.
A native New Yorker, Raynor first met Macdonald during the construction of the National Golf Links course in 1908. Macdonald hired Raynor, then an engineer, to survey the land for the layout, beginning a relationship that lasted until Raynor's death.
Raynor apparently had no qualms with Macdonald's cranky arrogance, or with doing his dirty work, as the pair collaborated on several courses over the years. When Raynor went off to design courses on his own, he used many of the same ideas he learned from working with his mentor.
"Raynor's entire understanding of architecture came from Macdonald,'' said golf journalist Anthony Pioppi in a 2010 article in Golf Course Architecture. "There is no reason to indicate that Raynor ever journeyed to Great Britain or even visited the growing array of laudable designs in the United States ... Raynor said he wished he had 'the ears of a donkey or an ass,' so as to hear every word Macdonald spoke.''
The career of Raynor was marked by its brevity, with his first solo project coming at age 38 and his 1926 death from pneumonia at age 51.
Macdonald, who died 13 years after Raynor, remembered him fondly in his book.
"Sad to say he died ere his prime . . . ,'' Macdonald wrote. "Raynor was a great loss to the community, but still a greater loss to me. I admired him from every point of view.''
In 2007, Macdonald was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in St. Augustine, Fla., and even though it took that group 33 years from its opening to finally get around to his enshrinement, even he would approve of the first paragraph of his bio that read in part, "because of his contributions to the game, he can justly be called the Father of American golf.''
One more significant connection of Old White's journey from early 20th century links attraction to 21st century PGA Tour stop came when Lester George, a golf architect from Richmond, Va., was hired by The Greenbrier to put the layout under an extensive renovation from 2002-06.
By 2000, the course had devolved with age and become very pedestrian, and George restored the course to Macdonald's original design, with consideration given to the impact of modern equipment.
"[Time] had rendered it unrecognizable as a Macdonald/Raynor course,'' George said on GolfClubAtlas.com.
After his initial work, George returned to Old White in 2010 to tweak his refinements in preparation for the initial Greenbrier Classic. Old White, less than a year from its 100th birthday, remains the oldest course played by the PGA pros. |
NORTH TOPSAIL BEACH, NC (WWAY) — On Topsail Island high tides are bringing a new meaning to beach front property, and they could soon cost some property owners their home.
Beach erosion is common in many coastal communities. However, in North Topsail Beach the erosion has become so severe it is threatening to wash an entire neighborhood into the Atlantic Ocean.
“At the north end is the neighborhood of the inlet, so we’ve had some accelerated erosion that is inlet related,” North Topsail Beach Mayor Dan Tuman said. “We had some high, high tides earlier this week. Water did come up and go under some houses and spilled out on the street.”
The accelerated erosion has the sea knocking on the doorstep of many of the homes.
Robert and Kim Blok say this destruction has been hard to watch.
“It’s sad,” Kim said. “The first time we were here was a couple of months ago, and we walked right through here, and it wasn’t nearly as bad as it is now so it’s just a sad situation.”
Watching the foundations of the homes at the north end crumble has given the Bloks a new respect for Mother Nature.
“It’s the nature of the beast,” Kim said. “You know when you build that you can’t change nature, because the ocean is going to do what it’s going to do. When you live here you know that that’s the risk you take.”
Help is on the way in the form of dredging and a beach renourishment project performed by the Town of North Topsail Beach, however it could be too late with Hurricane Sandy fast approaching. Mayor Tuman says the renourishment project will start in mid-November. |
WorldWide Paranormal Reporting Center
Ordinary people experience paranormal activity more often than they think. It's only because they brush it aside as the heebie jeebies, then ignore it and forget it altogether that they do not identify the experience as paranormal at all. In the other extreme, those who actively seek paranormal experiences in their lives have a tendency to misinterpret ordinary events and over react to non-paranormal activity, as is often witnessed in psychic readings uk.
What is Considered Paranormal?
Paranormal activity is phenomena that have no scientific explanation. Of course there are many things that science cannot explain and scientists will be the first to admit to this. Many things happen in our physical world and within the human world that cannot be observed in an empirical way or measured with a tool. While scientist will hope to someday find a way to measure and explain such phenomena, those who believe in paranormal experiences do not have the same rigorous intentions to dissect the phenomena.
How Paranormal Works in Popular Culture
There has been a revival in interest in the paranormal in popular culture as can be seen in popular cult Hollywood TV shows like Supernatural and The X-Files. These TV shows have built on existing mythologies but also create their own for the sake of entertainment or to reflect current speculations on a particular paranormal theme. Common paranormal subjects include ghosts, spiritual entities, other world aliens, UFOs, and cryptids or as is also known as mythical animals.
Why Paranormal is Romantic
The paranormal appeals to creative story telling as it allows writers, readers and viewers to explore common life subjects in a grand and dramatic way. For instance, paranormal characters like vampires best embody what most people would view as sexual and passionate love that will last for eternity. A mere human cannot express such grandiose emotions because they are clumsy and mortal. But an elegant and innately sexy and immortal vampire can easily be a beautiful being in love forever, which is the basic theme of the popular series Twilight. Love and passion is just so much more intense and visual when the characters involved are vampires and werewolves.
Research into Paranormal
The research that is known done to investigate and validate the paranormal is sketchy at best. If you have ever seen a documentary trying to prove the existence of BigFoot or Santa Clause, then it is not difficult to believe that other such investigations are only meant for entertainment. Aside from that, we do not expect paranormal activities to be explained by the physical laws of nature as we know it. In a way, those who investigate paranormal experiences are seeking to explain the unexplainable. But many still do conduct researches into the paranormal because they are interesting in themselves. You will find many studies that will document people's views, reactions and beliefs of a shared or perceived paranormal phenomena. It is also possible to interview those who have experimental, anecdotal or first hand reports on the paranormal. |
This page gives an overview about the various kinds of notebooks available
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under Linux. It also contains pointers to "official" sources of information
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to running Linux on them.
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A steering axle is a steering axle no matter whether it is on a motor grader or an Ag tractor or a garden tractor. It's purpose is to make the machine turn in the direction the Operator points it in.
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If the front end of your tractor does not "push" when turning sharply in snow, then don't reverse them. If you find that it does push forward instead of turning immediately, then for all the effort it takes to swap them over, you just might want to give my suggestion a try.
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Online activist group Anonymous brought down more than 40 Web sites belonging to the Malaysian government, in what appeared to be a retaliation move against censorship, a news report revealed.
Quoting the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), newswire Reuters reported Thursday morning that 51 Web sites were hit, among which at least 41 were disrupted. The incidents happened before midnight on Wednesday; MCMC said the attacks were reduced by 4.00 a.m. this morning.
According to The Borneo Post, Anonymous had forewarned the attacks. In posts on pastebin.com dated Jun.12, the group allegedly condemned the government's censorship of sites including The Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks as well as the blocking of movies and television shows.
Calling the Malaysian government "one of the world's strictest governments", Anonymous said "acts of censorship are inexcusable" and told the country to "be prepared".
Prior to the attack, the MCMC had blocked several Web sites, but on the grounds that those sites had infringed copyright laws, said Bernama.
Screenshot of Sabah Tourism Board Web site during downtime
According to an official who spoke to Reuters, no personal or financial data were compromised in the attacks. However, local news site The Star reported that user accounts and passwords were stolen from the Sabah Tourism Web site and the data released to the public.
A security expert argued that the attacks on some of the sites were likely to be carried out by independent hackers and not Anonymous. Speaking to The Star, Dhillon Andrew Kannabhiran of Hack In The Box noted that sites such as www.sabahtourism.com, www.thetourmalaysia.com.my and www.cidb.gov.my were hacked and defaced on Wednesday. Anonymous had warned that it would attack at 3.30 a.m. Thursday.
Anonymous' attacks, he pointed out, are coordinated and the group "keeps to its word when launching its attacks". |
From my forthcoming book, Corporations that Changed the World: Apple Inc.
After a tour of the Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) laboratories in December 1979 and a demonstration of their Alto computer, Steve Jobs decided that the Graphical User Interface (GUI) was the future of computing. Apple traded $1 million dollars in pre-IPO Apple stock for three days at PARC to study its machines. Apple engineers came away from the experience with the foundation of their first computer based on a GUI, called Lisa. According to legend the project was named Lisa after Jobs’ first daughter, but Apple claims that the name is an acronym for Locally Integrated Software Architecture. Lisa was launched in 1983 at the sky-high price of $9,995, which is what most likely doomed it to failure. Success notwithstanding, Lisa was a forbearer to a much more successful Apple project – Macintosh.
I used the original Lisa in 1983 and had a blast from the past when a colleague emailed me this demo of Lisa from YouTube. (Let it buffer and jump to around the 6 minute mark).
"I can run the clock at the same time as the other applications" "I can have 16 programs running at once" "This is a pull down menu" "This is a font change... That's Amazing"
The Lisa demo is also available on iTunes as a podcast (iTunes link) without the lengthy intro.
(Tip: Stuart Pomerantz) |
Shrub or small tree. The leaves are lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, usually about 4 times as long as wide, glabrous or with sparse hairs; petiole short, up to 2 cm; net-veining conspicuous; margin entire or finely toothed. Capitula forming clusters up to 15 cm, creamy white, occasionally tinged with mauve; sweetly scented, particularly at night. The small fruits have both small glands and hairs as well as a pappus of bristly hairs.
Very similar to Vernonia colorata. The only reliable way to separate these two species is to examine the achenes (this also works with the ovaries when the plants are in flower) with a lens. If papillae only are present on the body of the achene, it is V. colorata; if both papillae and hairs are present, then it is V. amygdalina. V. colorata appears to be a plant of generally drier areas at lower altitudes whereas V. amygdalina occurs in higher rainfall areas at higher altitudes. |
To the editor:
I have been reading about the astounding remuneration “earned” by executives of banking and other financial institutions, many of which received bailout money from us. The extravagance brings to mind that of the French royalty before the revolution. Eighty-three million dollars for the head of Merrill Lynch in a year when the company lost $7.8 billion. The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. paid almost $180,000 for a car and driver for its CEO. Sixty-eight million dollars in stock options for the new head of Merrill Lynch, which received $10 billion in bailout money.
I don’t necessarily advocate the guillotine for the obscenely rich, but something should have been cut, their compensation at least. In their rush to save the country from financial ruin, our representatives did not place rational restrictions on compensation for the executives who led their companies and the rest of us into this mess.
We appear to be in the midst of a needed transition from a credit culture to one of actually paying for goods and services, and there will be a realignment of standard of living with actual income. It is time also for stockholders, workers and other citizens to demand a realignment of the incredible disparity between the income of business executives and that of the other 99 percent of employees.
Greed and immediate gratification have been the prime values of too many people in recent years. It’s time for change. For starters, our representatives should demand better limits on compensation for bailed-out executives. |
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In the mid-1990s, Americans suddenly awakened to the Internet, and especially the possibilities of e-mail and the World Wide Web, although earlier versions of the Net had been available for decades. In much the same way, in the late-1940s television began to make an impact on American society. Growing numbers of people were able to watch and react to the small flickering black and white images of Howdy Doody, the World Series, roller derby, Milton Berle, Hopalong Cassidy, Meet the Press and Kraft Theatre.
While Fundamentalist and Evangelical Protestants quickly became concerned about the programs transmitted over the new medium, some also saw it as a new means of communicating the Gospel. Potential TV broadcasters were concerned that the opportunity be open to all who could pay the costs and meet industry standards. They wanted the new industry to avoid the restrictions that had for many years limited the hours of religious radio broadcasts to those of a few "representative" mainline denominations.
Walter Maier, the popular Lutheran radio evangelist, made a television broadcast of The Lutheran Hour at a local station on January 1, 1949. A few other preachers also made local broadcasts, going out to the audience of a single station. But the costs and the still-developing technical requirements of the new medium had discouraged any nationwide broadcast of a Christian evangelistic program, until October 9, 1949.On that date, a Sunday evening, Percy and Ruth Crawford's Youth on the March went on the air over the ABC network, broadcast from the WFIL-TV station in Philadelphia and carried by "most" of its eleven affiliates. The day marked a milestone in the history of the television segment of the electronic church.
The Crawford's use of a variety-type format, as well as skits and dramatic presentations, was based on their radio broadcasts (which had been on the air in Philadelphia since 1931). Their show and the changes they introduced to it over the years served as a model to other religious television broadcasters who were to follow.
This exhibit is intended to document and celebrate that first broadcast, which you can view by clicking the middle icon below. The first and third links take you to biographical information about the Crawfords, articles written prior to or following the broadcast, and the descriptive guide of the Crawford materials available at the Archives. Choose from among these links to launch you on you tour.
Oct. 9, 1949 |
Philadelphia, PA Business Block Fire, Dec 1851
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN PHILADELPHIA.
Philadelphia, Saturday, Dec. 27.
A destructive fire broke out at 1 o'clock this morning, in HART'S Building, corner of Sixth and Chestnut streets. The flames spread with great rapidity, destroying the entire building, together with several book and music stores, and PARKER'S Restaurant in the basement.
The flames spread to the Shakespere building on the opposite side of Sixth street, and adjoining Chestnut street Theatre, which was also entirely destroyed, as was also BROWN'S Hotel, and HART'S building adjoining on Chestnut street.
About three o'clock, the walls of HART'S Building fell into the street, instantly killing two colored men and severely injuring several firemen and police. There is also reason to fear that several other persons were killed, as the streets were crowded at the time the walls fell.
The entire block on the west side of Sixth street, from Chestnut to Carpenter sts., is a heap of ruins.
Besides the buildings above named, JOHNSON'S law book store, and several other valuable stores on each side of Sixth st. and the north side of Chesnut st., are entirely burnt out.
Several other buildings on both sides of Sixth street are much damaged.
The fire was got under at about 9 o'clock this forenoon.
It is reported that police officer JOHNSON was killed. W. W. HALEY, Esq., is missing, and it is feared was killed by the falling walls.
The loss is roughly estimated at $200,000.
The heaviest losses fall upon DR. SCHENCK, whose establishment was entirely destroyed; T. & T. W. JOHNSON, law Booksellers, H. BLAKESTON, GETZ & BUCK, Booksellers, J. W. MOORE, Booksellers, and the owners of several Music, Periodical, and other stores on Sixth st., all of which were entirely destroyed, with their contents.
Workmen are engaged in removing the rubbish from the streets, and in searching for the bodies of those who may have been buried under the fallen walls.
Sunday, Dec. 28.
Workmen have been engaged all day in removing the rubbish from Sixth and Chesnut streets. The body of W. W. HALEY has not yet been found.
WM. BAKER, of the Mayor's Police, and JESSE PYLE and JAMES COOK, members of the Morris Hose Company, are missing, and, it is greatly feared, were buried under the fallen walls.
The New York Times New York 1851-12-29 |
All In Good Measure
Most of the world goes with the metric system, but here in America we just don’t want to budge from an inch, a foot, and a yard. Before measurements were standardized, they were based on different parts of the human body. The problem is people come in different sizes so the standard in the Middle Ages was to use the measurements of the current ruler of a country or empire. And they changed every time a new ruler took power.
The first inch was the width of English King Edgar’s thumb.
The first foot was the length of the foot of Charlemagne.
The first yard was the distance between the nose and outstretched thumb tip of King Henry the First.
Yards back then were used to determine distance and amounts of cloth and other fabric.
One of the earliest forms of measurement was the cubit. It’s the distance between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger. Egyptian hieroglyphics show a forearm to represent a cubit.
A fathom measuring ocean depth is the distance between outstretched arms from fingertip to fingertip.
For determining dry or liquid measure – any container would do. The container was measured by how
many of a predetermined number of seeds it could hold. If it held a thousand sunflower seeds – you’d
have an idea of how much you were getting no matter what kind of container it was. |
Two Chinese high wire walkers have set a record after crossing on a single wire more than 850ft above ground.
Adili, vice-chairman of the China Acrobatic Artists Association, and his apprentice, Ya Gebu, 19, completed the stunt without safety wires or nets.
The Traveller's Notebook has a fascinating guide to travelling by cargo ship. I didn't realise that it was possible to travel by cargo ship, at least comfortably. It's not cheap though. It can cost between $80-$140 a day.
And if you are feeling adventurous you can travel around the world. The trip takes between 110-120 days and takes you to Papeete in Tahiti, various sparsely populated and unspoiled islands in the South Pacific, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Singapore then via the Suez Canal, before returning to Europe. There isn't a price listed on the website but it's probably not cheap.
Just today I listened to all 3 parts of the BBC Radio series 'The Definitive History of UK Dance Music' which went back to the early 1960's, but it wasn't until the late 1980's that music like Delia's track appeared. [via]
With inflation spiralling out of control, Zimbabwe has introduced a $100 billion note (CNN has a photo of a $500 million note). $100 billion is the equivalent to one U.S. dollar and is enough to buy four oranges.
The official inflation rate is currently at official inflation rate now at 2.2 million percent although it is likely to be a lot higher.
According to Wikipedia, Hungary suffered the highest rate of hyperinflation ever recorded shortly after the Second World War. The value of the Pengő was doubling every 15 hours and in mid-1946 the 100,000,000,000,000,000,000* (100 quintillion) Pengő banknote was issued - the highest denomination banknote ever issued. a one sextillion Pengő was also printed but was never issued.
100,000,000,000,000,000,000 (100 quintillion) Pengő
By the end of July 1946 one U.S. dollar was worth 460 octillion Pengő (460 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000)! To stabilise the economy a new currency was introduced - the Forint. One Forint was worth 400 octillion Pengő.
Related: Other examples of hyperinflation.
* - This is a quintillion as defined by the US (also used by the UN). A British quintillion would be 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
A list of 51 things you are note allowed to see on Google Maps.
I'm a bit of a Nokia fanboy and have been purchasing a few accessories for my phones over the past few weeks. For anyone that's interested I'll be posting some reviews of them. First up is the DC-8 Extra Power charger.
The Nokia DC-8 charger is a lipstick-sized charger that you can use to boost or recharge your Nokia phone on the go. The DC-8 uses AA batteries as the source of power which means that you if you run out of power you can buy a pack of regular batteries to recharge your phone.
The Food Pornographer lives in Perth, Western Australia and simply loves taking photos of food, including this mouth-watering burger.
She takes her camera everywhere with her. Her workmates have grown accustomed to their lunches being photographed.
She makes no claims of being a professional photographer, but she really enjoys taking pictures. [via]
Popular Mechanics has obtained some exclusive photos of the B-2 Stealth Bomber that crashed in Guam back in February. It's amazing to think that there's over a billion dollars worth of plane sat smouldering on a runway.
The main reasons for buying an Asus Eee PC 1000H was to have a portable laptop/netbook that I could take on holiday or carry around in my camera bag. The spec didn't need to be that fantastic so I the 1GB of RAM, 80GB HD and 1.6GHz Atom processor were more than enough. All I would want to do is browse the web and blog, transfer photos from my camera to the HD and maybe watch some movies.
After using the netbook for a just under a week, here are my thoughts.
Scientists have discovered a chameleon species that spends a good two-thirds of its life inside an egg: Furcifer labordi lives about 8-9 months as an embryo, and has a post-hatching lifespan of just 4-5 months. As far as the scientists know, this strange life history is unique among all land vertebrates, and may help researchers better understand how certain ecological and hormonal factors influence life history evolution. Link
Image via The Times
Two villagers in the Söse valley of Germany have discovered their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents — give or take a generation or two.
Using DNA testing of well-preserved Bronze Age bones, Manfred Hucht-hausen, 58, a teacher, and 48-year-old surveyor Uwe Lang can claim to have the longest proven family tree in the world. Mr Lange can already trace his family name to 1550 and can now go back 120 generations.
They have also discovered that their long-lost ancestors may have grilled and eaten other members of their clan. Link
/Film has posted some information about how the 20 minutes of The Dark Knight was shot with 70mm IMAX cameras. They have also posted the above image which shows how much more you get to see compared to the standard 35mm widescreen version.
The IMAX cinema that was fairly close to where I live has closed but luckily the IMAX in London, which has the largest screen in Britain, will still be showing TDK when I visit there in August.
Well, it's been a week wearing the Peloop penis enlargement ring and the old purple headed womb broom has grown.... 0 inches. I haven't been wearing it permanently but fairly often.
I wasn't expecting anything results from wearing it but at least I've got a few laughs from friends who are surprised that I've actually worn it.
Come back next week for another update.
This method of demolishing a building may be more environmentally friendly but it's hardly any fun. [Gizmodo has more info]
Chevrolet attracted scroungers with its 20-foot billboard advert made entirely from one-pence coins in London’s New Oxford Street. The billboard installed last week, consisted of 20,000 pennies was created to advertise the 769,500p (£7,695) Aveo. In just 30 minutes, Londoners had stripped the billboard clean. [More photos here]
Argentinian scientists have strapped plastic tanks to the back of cows in a bid to understand the impact of the wind produced by cows on global warming. The researchers discovered methane from cows accounts for more than 30 per cent of the country's total greenhouse emissions. Link |
Friday, April 29, 2011
Spring migration has been a bust. My little corner of Florida has been blessed with calm, sunny weather for the past month, which is great for people and birds -- but not for people who want to look at birds. As one of my more knowledgeable birding pals told me, migrating birds want to get to their breeding grounds fast, and if the weather is clear, they're not going to stop. And in my area, not that many migrating birds have seen a need to stop.
Last week, Glenn and I went on Alachua Audubon's annual pilgrimage to Fort DeSoto, and scored a couple of Cape May, Black-throated Blue, and Blackpoll Warblers -- but no other migrants. Last night, a powerful thunderstorm hit Gainesville, and as I lay in bed watching the lightning flash across the sky, I wondered how many migrants might have chosen to spend the night in town rather than fly through the storm.
The answer: not many. A quick early-morning trip to Bolen Bluff revealed a single migrant warbler -- a male American Redstart -- and dozens and dozens of squirrels. Oh boy.
Still, the transition from winter to spring still shows itself in the changing inventory of birds. Local summer breeders such as Summer Tanagers and Blue Grosbeaks have started showing up, and rumor has it the Purple Gallinules have arrived on Paynes Prairie, just in time for breeding season. I haven't seen one locally yet this season, but on a trip south about a month ago, we got to see a particularly pretty one at the Orlando Wetlands, where they occur year round:
Luckily, when there's nothing else to look at during the hot season, there are always babies. Like the one above. He/she was one of four we saw peeping and sort-of walking in the underbrush at Lettuce Lake Park, in Tampa. Holy cow. Cutest. Thing. Ever. Times four.
All of us who watched the little family were enthralled. We figured the babies must be really young, given there were still so many of them (and there were a large number of hungry alligators nearby). We marvelled at how different they looked from their parents. The little puffballs made me wonder if there's some kind of universal template for all precocial chicks, and at some point in their fuzzy little lives a program goes off to turn the little things into chickens, or Mallards, or whatever.
I certainly wouldn't have been able to tell whose babies these were had the parents not been nearby: we heard them calling loudly and flying low over the lake all afternoon. One was always with the babies, never more than a foot or two away.
It still amazes me that in only a matter of months, those tiny little balls of fluff will turn into this:
Not just any old babies, but Limpkin babies -- a vulnerable Florida specialty. To see four of them being so well cared for was just as good as seeing some random migrant just passing through. |
In another misapplication of the American doctrine of the separation of church and state, a California school district is ushering in a Cultural Revolution a la Mao by censoring founding documents because they contain references to God and religion. A principal in Oakland is requiring the redaction of the Declaration of Independence, diaries of George Washington and writings of John Adams, as well as state constitutions to expunge such references.
The Alliance Defence Fund is suing the school district for this unconstitutional censorship of history, and for good reason. In relation to the district’s actions, the ADF has stated that
[t]he district is simply attempting to cleanse all references to the Christian religion from our nation’s history, and they are singling out Mr. Williams [a school teacher who had handed out the Declaration of Indepence as supplemental reading for his students] for discriminatory treatment. Their actions are unacceptable under both California and federal law.
The reason that this is not only shocking in its leftist audacity but also downright dishearting is that the doctrine of the separation of church and state is indeed a necessary and beneficial doctrine. The separation of church and state stems in large part from Europe’s blood-drenched experience with established churches. But the idea of the separation of church and state was not meant as a vehicle for the political sanitization of history. It seems that even the most devoted ACLU lawyer or other adherent of “Living Constitution” notions of constitutional interpretation should realize this.
This is a serious perversion of the doctrine of the separation of church and state. It is an instance of the state being entirely hostile towards religion, rather than simply neutral as between different religions. It is absurd to think that the Declaration of Independence runs afoul of the First Amendment. Jeff Lindsay’s humor does justice to this ridiculous attempt at censorship. The Constitution in no way prefers atheism to religiosity, neither does it require a cleansing of history to expunge references to religion out of its tomes.
That is why I have compared this with the Cultural Revolution. It is an attempt to rewrite history or to deny its import to the students who are learning about their heritage. It is scary to think that someone would actually want to cleanse historical documents in this manner and deprive students of an accurate depiction of their heritage as Americans. Even if the parents of these children are atheists, it causes reason to stand still for those children to receive a politically sanitized version of history. That many of the founders were religious people is merely a historical fact: it does not imply that the students learning about them need to become religious. |
Four members of the House of Representatives have introduced legislation to reign in the power granted by the Patriot Act to the investigative tool known as the National Security Letter (NSL). The National Security Letters Reform Act of 2009 would return the issuing requirements of NSLs to pre-9/11 requirements. This has been hailed by the ACLU at the same time as they have launched their own website calling for reform of the Patriot Act.
For those who might not recall, libraries and library systems have been long wary of the enhanced powers of NSLs. It came to a full conflict in the case of Library Connection v Gonzales in which a library consortium challenged both the gag order and the records sought. It ended with the government withdrawing the NSL and lifting the gag order. You can read more about it here.
I wasn’t a librarian in 2001 when the original Patriot Act was passed. I do remember talking about the chilling effect that it had on the average library record in my graduate courses. (I recall reading about some library systems in California shredding every type of record that they didn’t need to run the system, but I can’t find that article for linking.) I remember thinking that it was a real shame to put the library in an untenable position of trying to remain in compliance with the law and protecting the privacy of the patrons. While most will see themselves as defenders of academic freedom and intellectual inquiry (and embrace the radical militant librarian moniker), I would argue that we should have never allowed ourselves to get to that point in the first place. (Perhaps the political activism of today will ensure any such future endeavors.) However, hindsight being what it is, I certainly commend my fellow librarians for their steps to preserve some of the freedoms that make this country great.
(Cross posted to LISNews) |
Jesus the true and greater Jonah
1. Both left the city!
-Jonah left the city of Nineveh in pride and self-righteousness. Not wanted to receive mercy and grace. Not realizing Jonah is Nineveh without God coming to him an showing him love and grace. Jonah left the city full of rebellious, prejudice and was a man without a mission.
-Jesus was a man with a mission. first jesus left heaven as God and became a man, and entered human history by being born of a virgin. The bible says that “God so loved the world that he gave his son” Jesus came to us because of love. And again in humility jesus entered the city, while men of prestige today travel in luxurious planes in expensive cars. Jesus our God, king and savior enter the city on the back of a donkey. Then Jesus left the city like Jonah but not under his own accord, they had to drag Jesus out of Jerusalem under false charges to crucify him.
2. Both took the wrath of the storm!
-Jonah in selfishness, refused to jump in to the storm of God’s wrath to die for the sailors. Although, they ultimately threw him and and were saved. the real hero is Jesus.
Jesus, took on the real storm, the storm of God’s wrath. By fulfilling his mission on coming to earth Jesus died for our sin in our place upon the cross. ALL of God’s wrath, and its the size of the ocean, it went upon Jesus instead of us. and he did it willingly, we didn’t need to throw Jesus on the cross. He laid down his life willingly in love. He was punished in our place, for our mistakes, for our rebellion. We deserved judgement but we received mercy and grace.
3. Both were in the belly of the whale three days!
-For three days and three nights Jonah remained in the belly of whale until he repented. Until he finally realized how selfish, prideful, and self-righteous he had become.
-Jesus also spend three days in death. For three days and three nights, Jesus went to paradise, not heaven as told to us in Luke 16. Telling all the old testament saints his victory on the cross over Satan, sin and death. That through his obedience they would all be forgiven by faith in his work on the cross. While Jonah spend three days in lament, Jesus spend 3 days in victory.
4. Both experienced resurrection!
-Jonah eventually repented and the fish puked Jonah out on dry land. And Jonah experienced resurrection and new life and a new heart towards God and his people and in Jonah 2:9 Jonah screams “Salvation belongs the the Lord” the central theme of the bible.
-Jesus died on Friday at calvary and on Sunday Jesus resurrected proving his sacrifice was accepted by God. Proving his atonement was full payment for our sin.
5. Both preached 40 days after resurrection!
-For 40 days Jonah went on the preach to Nineveh and the goodness of God and about his love and mercy.
-For 40 days Jesus also preached about his victory over death an sin to his disciples. It was his resurrection from death that transformed 12 ordinary men into fearless disciples.
What is my point in showing you all this?
if it wasn’t for Jesus loving us we would all be like Nineveh, far from God. Becoming our own gods and living our lives for our own purposes. In utter disobedience to him. and we all rightly deserved judgment for our sins against God.
Also, if i wasn’t for Jesus love us in the the church we would all become and remain as Jonah, self-righteous, prideful, arrogant towards those outside the church. forgetting they are a mirror. Jonah is Nineveh without Jesus’s love and mercy.
So you see, we all need Jesus. Not just sinners, but self righteous people too. we all needs his loving grace, and he’s the hero of this story. This isn’t a story about a fish at all but about God lovingly, patiently leading us into repentance for our goodness and his Glory. |
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Filed under: pale lager (mug, English pint, lager, shaker) | Tags: Alcohol by volume, beer, Drink, Food, Pale lager, Recreation, rice, Sake
Style & glass: Pale lager; dimpled mug
12 fl oz x 5% ABV = 60 / 60 = 1 beers * 150 C = 150 calories (est.)
Available at: everywhere, for Pete’s sake for $.50 a can
smell is mostly corn, sight is mostly yellow, taste is mostly corn and rice, feel is thin and light, overall I’d say drink in the event you want to recall what it was like before you drank craft beer.
Filed under: Jim Dundee, pale lager (mug, English pint, lager, shaker) | Tags: amber, beautiful, bubblegum, citrus, deep, delicious, dough, golden, Malty, medium, nice head, nuts, orange, red, refreshing, respectable, rocky
JW Dundee’s American Amber Lager
Volume: 12 fl oz
Purchased at: part of sampler
Price per fl oz: $10 / 144 fl oz = $0.069 per fl oz
Consumed on/at: home on March 27th, 2008
sensory first impression: Nice head. Beautiful amber color. Rocky head is refreshing. Good color and temperature.
Malt flavor is: nuts, malty depth.
Hop flavor is: floral, deep citrusy, herbaceous.
Yeast flavor is: doughy, liquid, wet.
Other flavors include: alcohol, bubblegum, soy sauce, vanilla.
Color is: pale, golden, amber, orange, red, fiery.
Liquid is: clear.
Head and lace are: bumpy, tan, nice lace.
Maltiness or Sweetness level is: medium
Hoppiness or Bitterness level is: medium,
Sour level is: light
Body or Mouthfeel is: medium
Texture is: creamy, oceanic,
Carbonation is: lively,
Finish is: long and nice.
Overall experience: A very nice, respectable, beer. Delicious.
Filed under: Carlsberg, pale lager (mug, English pint, lager, shaker) | Tags: Add new tag, alcohol, average, band aids, Bread, clear, clear yellow body, corn, dirt, dried herbs, dust, grass, hay, medicine, mold, pale, skunk, skunky, sparkling, thick white head, thin amber, yellow
ABV: 5.5% (12.5 cpfo estimated)
Calories: estimated at 211 C (12.5 cpfo x 16.9)
Volume: 16.9 oz
Purchased at: Sherwood Liquors
Price per fl oz: $2.50 / 16.9 fl oz = $0.14 per fl oz
Consumed at: Home
sensory first impression: Skunky. Pours thin amber stream with thick white head, which dissipates quickly. Almost clear yellow body. Visibly carbonated. Quite active. Taste is disappointingly average. American Pilsner average. Anheuser Busch average. Poor.
Aroma/Olfactory: 3 out of 10
Malt flavor is: bread, hay, grass
Hop flavor is: dried herbs
Yeast flavor is: dust, mold, dirt
Other flavors include: alcohol, corn, medicine, band aids, skunk
Visuals/Appearance: 1 out of 5
Color is: pale, yellow.
Liquid is: clear, sparkling
Head and lace are: none.
Taste/Flavor: 3 out of 10
Maltiness or Sweetness level is: light
Hoppiness or Bitterness level is: none
Sour level is: none to light
Palate/Tactile: 1 out of 5
Body or Mouthfeel is: light
Texture is: thin, nothing
Carbonation is: lively
Finish is: abrupt, sweet.
Overall experience: 4 out of 20. This is the definition of average. I liked the easy drinkability. I did not like the price, the lack of hops, flavor, and color, or much else about this beer.
Filed under: pale lager (mug, English pint, lager, shaker), Yuengling | Tags: average
This was a simple lager. Nothing great, but better than Bud, if only by a bit. Aroma was missing, visuals were typical, taste was rice and corn, and palate was short and bland. Perfectly average.
Filed under: Anheuser Busch, pale lager (mug, English pint, lager, shaker) | Tags: clear, faint, flat, loser, stale
first impression: smells stale, faint and unwholesome.
Color: lemony, clear, and without depth
Aroma: faint and fleeting
Hoppiness: just a hint
Maltiness: most of the flavor is malt, but that’s not saying much.
Weight: surprisingly weighty.
Mouthfeel: thin, like a flat soda.
Belgian Lace: absent without a trace
Bite: just the slightest
second impression: what an absolute loser. |
This post is about some related thoughts: bias in media, the relationship of society and nature, and the issue of democracy in terms of our present capitalism.
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Based on my experience and research, I think it’s fair to state that NPR isn’t liberally biased… or, at least, not in any clear sense… but such assessments, of course, depend on how one defines/perceives ‘liberalism’. I’d argue NPR is as mainstream as can be found in that they mostly present a status quo view of the world. I suspect if you were to ask most people seen in the mainstream media (reporters, pundits, politicians, talking heads, etc) and they gave you an honest answer, most of them probably would agree with the types of views that are regularly presented on NPR.
(This ‘mainstream’, however, isn’t the same as the everyday experience and values of the average person. If you want to find something closer to a liberal bias, look at the stated opinions of the majority of Americans.)
Here is an example from NPR. The other day, there was a panel discussion. It was about business use of and government management of public land. As I recall, there were three guests, all mainstream types including someone defending the interests of big business and criticizing too much regulation. They had the typical disagreements one often hears in the mainstream, but they were all basically on the same page about the terms and focus of discussion. For certain, it wasn’t a liberal panel. It was just the old school journalism where two sides of an issue are ‘neutrally’ presented by the host, although done in the non-antagonistic ‘let’s all get along’ style typical of NPR.
Most interesting is what was lacking, specifically in terms of those who claim a liberal bias. Among the guests, there was no left-winger of any variety nor anyone who might agree with left-wing positions; no communists, socialists, Marxists, anarcho-syndicalists, anarcho-primitivists, left-libertarians, hippy environmentalists, deep ecologists, Goddess-loving pagans, social justice Christians, indigenous people, community activists, etc. Among the guests invited, there was no discussion of the poor and minorities most impacted by pollution and environmental destruction, no discussion about the alternatives to our present capitalist system, no discussion about how our society is turning into inverted totalitarianism. The officials/experts who were invited as guests framed the discussion narrowly. It was mostly framed as government regulation vs private profit. there was also some slight secondary framing of local people vs non-local corporations. Framings that were mostly or entirely ignored included: communities vs globalism, public good vs individual good, living ecosystems vs natural resources, humans as part of nature vs humans as separate from nature, etc.
The basic discussion was about how to maximize resource procurement while minimizing environmental destruction. And the basic assumption was of opposition and conflict, of win/lose scenarios where those who lose the most are ignored or rationalized away. There was neither an environmentalist conception of the human species living sustainably balanced within the earth’s biosphere nor a religious belief of humanty as caretaker of God’s Creation. The focus of the discussion was ‘management’ and so the implication was how do we best control and manipulate nature toward our desired ends. What was missing was the possibility of humans not creating problems in the first place that need to be managed.
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I was thinking about how this opposition attitude is common in American society right now. There is the idea that for one person or group to win that others must lose. And there is is the idea that society can only be run well through hierarchies with the only disagreement being which system the hierarchy is organized according to. All of this depresses me.
My friend and I went to see the new X-Men: First Class movie. We were discussing the view portrayed of human evolution and change. It was mostly a view of Social Darwinism (by the way, I’ve always thought it odd how many right-wingers will dismiss Darwinian evolution while promoting Social Darwinism). I mentioned to my friend the thoughts I wrote about above. As a liberal, he of course agreed with me about NPR being a mainstream establishment voice. And we had a discussion on our walk home about the relationship of society and nature.
I told him about some thoughts I’ve had while working at the city parking ramp. In particular, I brought up my wonderings about what kind of vision of the world is implied by the building of large concrete structures in which to store large hunks of mobile metal.
I noticed a pigeon nesting in the ramp and I knew its days were numbered. Management seeks to block all possible nesting sites within the ramp and some of the maintenance workers find great pleasure in ‘hunting’ the pigeons who do manage to find a roost. This mentality is repugnant to me. I understand that animals and humans don’t always cohabitate well, but this situation isn’t ‘natural’ or inevitable. Parking ramps are designed to be ecosystem deserts, to be utterly opposed to all that is natural. But there is no reason to do this other than an ideological paradigm, a worldview that disallows people to envision any other possibility.
A parking ramp could be designed that gave pigeons nesting areas that would keep their poop away from cars and walkways. It could even be designed so that the pigeon poop could be collected and used as it traditionally was used (and still is used in many places) as fertilizer. This pigeon fertilizer could be used as free fertilizer for city gardens or it could be sold in order to make additional profit. That would be a win-win solution. To take this a step further, ramps (or any other structures for that matter) could be designed with habitation for all kinds of animals. Downtowns could be as beautiful to look at as parks filled with trees. And the habitat could help ease some of the environmental destruction that are causing many species to become endangered and go extinct.
What is the advantage of seeing nature as the enemy? There is no practical advantage. It actually goes against the practical benefit of the continued survival of the human species. Yes, we’re talented at ‘managing’ nature, but too often this just means destroying nature. My friend pointed out the conservative position that it shouldn’t be the role of government to spend taxpayers’ money on the liberal agenda of saving nature. My response was that neither should it be the role of government to ensure the private profit agenda of destroying of nature.
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This problem extends beyond just nature. If we perceive nature as lesser than us, then our treatment of nature demonstrates how we wish to treat humans that are considered as lesser than other humans (poor, minorities, indigenous, etc) and how we wish to treat communities that are considered lesser (in terms of legal rights and political influence) than big business. To treat nature fairly is akin to the democratic ideal of treating all people fairly.
The reason I was thinking about democracy was because of an article on The Nation. Here is the article:
Reimagining Capitalism: Bold Ideas for a New Economy
And following it is my response:
Our societal problems are caused and contributed to by a lack of democracy. A functioning democracy isn’t just about votes but about participation. In all aspects of society (politics, media, business, etc), power and wealth have become concentrated while wealth disparity and political disenfranchisement grows. Early great thinkers warned against such concentration, but in recent history many wrongly thought such warnings no longer mattered.
A political democracy is meaningless without social democracy (i.e., democratic values such as in the constitution). I don’t know if capitalism’s problems can be solved or if capitalism must be replaced. If there is any hope for capitalism in a democratic society, it will be by capitalism becoming a part of democracy rather than in opposition.
The founders and other early Americans were careful about regulating capitalism. They created protectionism to defend the local economy against transnationals, subsidized presses ensuring a functioning free press available to all citizens, and defined corporations narrowly. The last may be most important. Corporations:
– were only allowed to serve a single project or product, large conglomerate corporations having been illegal.
– could only exist as temporary entities so as to not outlive the people who are responsible for creating them.
– weren’t allowed to participate in politics.
Free market is just another way of saying democratic market. A system, political or economic, can only be free to the extent people involved in the system are free. As some early Americans (Paine, Jefferson, Thoreau, etc) realized, freedom can’t exist without equality (of power and wealth, and of opportunities to fairly earn power and wealth).
Democracy only functions well on the local level where people know the people they are impacting by their decisions and actions. A market can’t be considered free when it impacts people who can’t influence or protect themselves against those (e.g., transnationals) who seek to profit at their expense (including local communities and environments). The more localized democracy becomes the more it becomes direct democracy. Elites mistrust the people, but we the majority need to stop being subservient to the elites in politics and business. The problem is that the system we have now is designed by and for the upper class.
We need a government and an economy that is literally by and for the people:
1) a modernized version of Jefferson’s agrarian democracy (meaning an economy run mostly by small businesses and a society where most people are small business owners);
2) something like what Chomsky describes with anarcho-syndicalism (where businesses are owned, controlled and/or otherwise greatly influenced by the workers and by the members of the community in which the business is located); or
3) a system closer to Germany’s model with strong unions, a publicly trained workforce, high levels of civic participation, well-funded social safety net, community banks, and protected manufacturing.
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Obviously, we live in a messed up society with messed up priorities. We are still operating society according to some very old ideas about human nature, but we are facing very new problems. |
Highly Unpopular at First
It is hard to believe now, but the potato was once a highly unpopular food. When first introduced into England by Sir Walter Raleigh, newspapers printed editorials against it, ministers preached sermons against it, and the general public wouldnt touch it. It was supposed to sterilize the soil in which it had been planted and cause all manner of strange illnesseseven death.
There were, however, a few brave men who did not believe all the propaganda being shouted against it. It was seen as an answer to famine among the poorer classes and as a healthful and beneficial food. Still, these few noblemen in England could not persuade their tenants to cultivate the potato. It was years before all the adverse publicity was overcome and the potato became popular.
A Frenchman named Parmentier took a different tack. He had been a prisoner of war in England when he first heard of the new plant. His fellow prisoners protested the outrage of having to eat potatoes. Parmentier, instead, thoughtfully inquired about the methods of cultivating and cooking the new food.
Upon his return to France, he procured an experimental farm from the Emperor, in which he planted potatoes. When it was time to dig them, at his own expense, he hired a few soldiers to patrol all sides of his famous potato patch during the daytime. Meanwhile he conducted distinguished guests through the fields, digging a few tubers here and there, which they devoured with evident relish.
At night, he began to withdraw the guards. A few days later one of the guards hastened to Parmentier with the sad news that peasants had broken into the potato patch at night, and dug up most of the crop.
Parmentier was overjoyed, much to the surprise of his informant, and exclaimed, “When the people will steal in order to procure potatoes, their popularity is assured.” |
By Darrenmoffat-Oracle on Sep 05, 2008
This is really only relevant to those people doing development on the OpenSolaris onnv-gate that are inside Sun, but it since there is nothing private about it I'm posting it publicly so google can find it.
With the transition from Teamware to Mercurial the onnv-gate source code is now held in two separate repositories. The main repository holding the overwhelming majority of the source code, which is opensourced under various licenses but mostly CDDL, is called "onnv-gate" the source code is in the mercurial repository in a subdirectory called usr/src. The much smaller closed source is in a separate repository that is nested inside the "onnv-gate" as the usr/closed subdirectory.
The usr/src part can be built either by using the downloadable (and redistributable) binaries which make up a proto area for the closed source bits, or the usr/closed part can be built from source along with usr/src. If building both from source then the usr/src and usr/closed mercurial repositories must be in sync otherwise there will be a high risk of either build failures or buggy binaries.The Mercurial forest extension provides a way to make sure that nested repositorys such as onnv and onnv-closed are always pulled/pushed at the same time.
Initial gate setup
$ hg clone ssh://onnv.sfbay.sun.com//export/onnv-clone myrepo $ cd myrepo/usr $ hg clone ssh://onnv.sfbay.sun.com//export/onnv-clone/usr/closed
Syncing with onnv-gate
$ cd path/to/myrepo $ hg fpull
You may find this a little slow as it has to traverse the whole workspace looking for nested repositories so it can build the definition of the forest. This can be speeded up using the "fsnap" command to create a snapshot file. Or you can create one by hand, that may look similar to this:
[tree1] root = . revision = tip path.default = ssh://onnv.sfbay.sun.com//export/onnv-clone [tree2] root = usr/closed revision = tip path.default = ssh://onnv.sfbay.sun.com//export/onnv-clone/usr/closed
To use the snapshot file we run fpull like this:
$ hg fpull --snapfile /path/to/mysnapfile
ONNV-gate push rules
The rules for pushing to the onnv-gate when a single set of fixes needs to span the usr/src and usr/closed trees is that usr/closed must be pushed first. This basically means that you should NOT use the forest extension for pushing. However the number of people that this impacts is very small most developers just need an up to date usr/closed for building.
For this reason I'm not showing how to push with the forest extension here. |
Dale Hinkle keeps bees in Monroe County but often makes the trek to Blount County where he is a vital part of the Blount County Beekeepers Association. He is the association treasurer, a position that he has held for several years.
Dale is one of the few beekeepers in the area to raise his own queens.
How many hives do you keep?
Describe the woodenware you use for your hive bodies and your honey supers (deeps, mediums, shallows, wood, plastic, etc).
Deeps for brood; Illinois for supers.
Do you use screened bottom boards? Slatted racks?
How do you feed your bees? When (please provide months, not just Spring/Fall) do you feed? What do you feed? What equipment do you use for feeding? Do you use any supplements?
I feed protein patties at the end of January and use a top hive feeder if it gets wet in February. I feed high fructose corn syrup.
How and when do you treat for varroa mites, nosema, tracheal mites, and hive beetles? Are there any other practices you use to minimize these pests/diseases?
I treat for varroa mites with Apiguard in the fall. I treat for nosema in the fall.
What method(s) do you use to minimize swarming (hive body reversal, checkerboarding, etc)?
I add deep boxes and split hives in March or April.
When do you put honey supers on? How many do you put on at a time?
I put on Illinois boxes after the apple blossoms bloom.
When do you take your off from your honey supers?
The last week in June.
How do you build up brood in the Spring for a colony that has overwintered?
In the last week of January I put protein patties on and a 50/50 syrup in February until the honey flow starts.
Do you requeen? How often? Where do you get your queens?
Yes, I requeen yearly or as needed. I raise my own queens. |
A Practical Approach to Cardiovascular Medicine
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Wiley, Apr 12, 2011 - Medical - 408 pages
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The first thing you learn in the MBA course Business Forecasting and Data Mining is how to read Professor Barry Keating’s syllabus. It looks something like this:
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As is the case on the syllabus, the text above has been encrypted or “enciphered.” Here it’s a pretty simple code, a substitution. The second paragraph is just a repeat of the first with each letter moved forward 13 places in the alphabet.
The actual course syllabus is much harder to decipher, but decipher it MBA students must because the first test is on information contained in it, such as what percentage of the final grade will be derived from test scores.
It isn’t that Keating, Mendoza College’s Jesse H. Jones Professor of Finance, enjoys messing with students’ minds. It’s that he sees forecasting as being just like decrypting: You’re faced with a mind-boggling array of data, and your only hope of understanding it is to spot the patterns.
In business, that could mean something as simple as noticing how, year after year, your company’s sales are higher (or lower) in certain seasons or during certain points in the macroeconomic business cycle. With such insights, you could adjust your manufacturing or staffing to maximize profits.
Data mining, on the other hand, is about unearthing precious management metal from mountains of recorded information. In the Information Age, the volume of such material has become almost unfathomable. For instance, today’s sophisticated online merchants, Keating says, record every keystroke of every visitor to their sites.
“It is a gold mine,” he says. “It’s just like the ’49ers in California. This data is just waiting to give up its secrets, and we now have some tools to get it.”
Jared Shawlee (MBA ’11), senior director of ticket sales and strategy for the San Jose Earthquakes Major League Soccer team, is already using what he learned in Keating’s course to develop a dynamic-pricing strategy for the team’s individual-game tickets. Instead of charging the same for every game, prices will be set (before the season starts) based on historic data showing which games are likely to be most in demand. Those could be games in better weather months or when a star player is coming to town. After the season is under way, prices for any remaining tickets will continue to rise and fall like shares of stock, depending on demand.
Keating says students who take Business Forecasting and Data Mining don’t typically become professional forecasters or data miners themselves, but almost all business people will face challenges involving forecasting at some point in their careers.
This class teaches you how to do it yourself or evaluate the abilities of organizations looking to sell you their services. |
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Tory-Ann Fretz (born August 8, 1942) is a former American amateur and professional tennis player who played in the 1950s and 1960s. She was ranked in the U.S. top ten from 1963 to 1966, and was No. 2 in the doubles rankings in 1965 and 1966.
Fretz grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and played collegiate tennis at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. In 1961 she won the singles and doubles titles at the NCAA Intercollegiate Championship.
At the U.S. Nationals, she was doubles semifinalist in 1965, and reached the doubles finals at the U.S. Open in 1968.
She has been inducted into the Intercollegiate Tennis Hall of Fame. |
Author:John Thadeus Delane
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- "Commentary on the preceding," in the Canterbury Papers (1850), which was copied from the leading article of The Times of December 19th, 1849: a response to a letter by the Right Reverend George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand, published on December 10th.
- “Delane, John Thadeus,” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
- “Delane, John Thadeus,” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911 |
Asin, salt, saltish, salted. Daging asin, salt meat. Chi asin salt water, the water of the sea.
Asongkěn, to push forward, to shove along, to push on to -to set afighting.
Asrah, to surrender, to submit, to give one self up, to ask for mercy; yielded, submitted. Sarahken in Sunda is also to give up, to surrender anything.
Asrakal, the act of standing up in prayer. (ar.)
Asta, a cubit, the measure from the elbow to the tips of fingers. Hasta C 789 the hand, a cubit measured by the hand and arm, from the elbow to the middle finger.
Astaghafarillah ar: an astonishment or of sudden alarm: may God avert, may God preserve us. God bless me!
Astana, the burial ground of Chiefs or of great men. In Bali Pangastanan is a sort of temple where Siwa is worshipped by the mass of the people. Sthana, C. 774 from Stha to stay-place, spot, situation or Asthana C. 66. an assembly (of the dead as used for a burial place).
Astina, name of the Country of the Pandus, placed by the Javanese in the province of in their own Island-Crawfurd. (Skr. Hastinapura , ancient Delhi. Fr.)
Asuh, to nurse a small child, to fondle an infant in the arms; to hold such a child in the arms and swing it about.
Asur, to push together, particularly firewood or burning logs.
Asur , to bribe , to gain to one's interest by gifts.
Asuran, a bribe, a douceur.
Aswalas, a term of reproach. The words are properly Javanese and Asu- alas, dog of the woods. Suna, C. 748. a dog, derived from Su to hear, to obey, and na affirmative. alas forest. (çvan, Nominat. çvâ; cass. obliqui çun- Skr.; cf. Gr. kyôn, kyn-os; lat. c(v)an-is; Germ. hun-d. Our form here is derived from the Nominative-çvâ, with prefixed a. Fr.)
Atah, unripe, raw, not sufficiently cooked.
Atak-atak, direction, position, as Kapahung, to nyaho di Atak-atak na I lost myself in the forest, and know not in what direction (or where abouts).
Atal, Orpiment, a yellow sulphurate of arsenic, with which the natives, especially at the east end of Java , smear their bodies , and make themselves yellow , on occasions of ceremony, especially when celebrating their marriage ceremonies. Artal is given by Crawfurd who says it is Sanscrit.
- (17) Smara Skr. derived from smri, memorem esse (memor = me- smor); cf for the application of the word (love, the God of love), the Latin cura. The a is prefixed, as in many words, to facilitate the pronunciation Fr. |
|A PREHISTORIC CEMETERY.|
CUSTODIAN CINCINNATI SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY.
ABOUT ten miles from Cincinnati, along the Little Miami River, is a locality which has long been known to the country people as the "Pottery-Field." The ground was strewed with fragments of pottery, bones, arrow-points, and other remains of like character, and the place was generally considered to be the site of an ancient work-shop. The primitive forest still occupies the locality, and is made up of oak, beech, elm, maple, walnut, etc. All around are found numerous mounds or tumuli, most of them small. A few of these were opened by Mr. Florian Gianque, in 1876, and some interesting things found. But, in 1878, Dr. Charles Metz and other gentlemen interested in archæology commenced a systematic exploration of the country thereabout, and so much has been found that we are enabled to form some idea of the habits, and get a glimpse into the life, of the people who once lived in the immediate vicinity of the city of Cincinnati.
During the four years that the excavations have been carried on, between six hundred and fifty and seven hundred skeletons have been brought to light. Many of them are in an advanced state of decay, and crumble to pieces on the slightest touch, while others, again, are in a very good state of preservation. It can, therefore, hardly be inferred that, because some of the skeletons are much decayed, they are necessarily very old; for, though we have well-preserved remains of bones from Babylon, Nineveh, and Egypt, which are certainly twenty-five hundred or three thousand years old, still the cases are exceptional in which they are found in good condition after the lapse of many years. Different kinds of soil and differences in climate have much to do with the matter: for, in a dry and equable climate, bones may resist for a long time the influences which would cause their decay, while, in a moist climate, and with sudden and extreme changes of temperature, such as we have here, any bone, unless buried in peat, or subject constantly to heavy pressure, so as to become partially fossilized, is liable to soon decay.
An examination of the skulls found in the cemetery, as it is called, as well as the other parts of the skeleton shows some interesting facts. In a paper by Dr. F. W. Langdon is given a table of measurements of the crania which shows that the brachycephalous skulls (those with an index of breadth of 800 and over) are largely in the majority, there being fifty-two out of seventy-two of this character. None of them, however, exhibit any signs of the flattening of the frontal
- "Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History," vol. iv, pp. 237, cl seq.
- The long diameter being taken as 100. |
It’s human nature to ask ever bigger questions and strive to solve ever more complex problems. High Performance Computing (HPC) is one more technological tool that can help us in that quest. HPC is pushing innovation of the next amazing achievement in science, engineering, healthcare, and education.
Do you have real insight into your data center or HPC operations? If you don’t understand everything going on throughout your entire facility and energy grid, it is very difficult to be truly efficient. How does your power consumption fluctuate? Do you have hot spots? Would you know if your systems were fighting each other or short-cycling? Are you looking across disparate systems to understand your environment? You can’t properly manage power demands, energy consumption, power fluctuations, or operational efficiency without understanding your data but that can be difficult with so much data everywhere. How can you see what is important through multiple systems, multiple screens, and a sea of data?
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Target: John Hendricks, Founder of Discovery Communications
Goal: Thank Animal Planet for donating money to waive shelter adoption fees
A new initiative by Animal Planet provides free pet adoptions in Austin, Texas through its R.O.A.R. To Their Rescue program. Started through a partnership between Animal Planet and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), this new program helps animals in need around the country by encouraging the public to adopt from shelters free of charge.
Animal Planet gave Austin a $25,000 grant to cover shelter fees for pet adoptions. They even went a step further by providing the Austin Animal Center with advertising material to help them bring public awareness of this initiative to a larger audience. Since the program began, people have come into the adoption center thinking they would have to pay for their new pet, but have been pleasantly surprised when they got a $0 bill.
Sadly, thousands of animals suffer every year due to negligence from their owners and caregivers. Pet adoption centers are able to save some of these animals and prepare them for better lives in loving homes. Fortunately, the partnership between Animal Planet and ASPCA has been successful in providing animals in need with caring families. About 111 pets have been adopted in September 2014 so far. Waiving adoption fees is proving a very effective method for increasing pet adoptions in the city.
Please sign this petition to thank Animal Planet and ASPCA for donating money and resources to the Austin Animal Center to increase animal adoption rates.
Dear John Hendricks,
Your company, Animal Planet, has recently teamed up with the ASPCA to increase pet adoptions in Austin, Texas. Since the partnership, Austin has seen an increase in adoptions. Your $25,000 grant has provided sufficient support for the Austin Animal Center so that they can waive all adoption fees. This program will ensure that thousands of animals will be adopted by loving homes while also spreading national awareness about pet adoptions.
Some people don’t realize that when they buy pets from pet stores, they are actually buying from breeding operations. This partnership will help bring awareness to the cruelty and abuse of puppy mills and the reasons why shelters are a more ethical option for pet adoption.
Thank you for helping the pet adoption centers in Austin, Texas by providing them with a grant and giving them advertising material to encourage people to adopt neglected animals in need of a loving home.
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the X value in the InDesign control panel , is the distance between the top left corner of the object and the 0 on the ruler.
the 6 small square in the control panel are the refrence point, which refer to which point on the object this X and Y distance would be measured, so in your screenshot
the reference is top left corner hence the distance is from 0 on the horizontal ruler to the top left corner of the object selected.
ok,i understood that,so how do i space them having 6mm seperation between all the 4 pic icons?
Select all the object box between which you want 6 mm seperation.
Go to Windows-->object and layout-->Align
In the Align panel...., on the bottom under "Distribute spacing" there will be two icons and a section "Use spacing"
In "Use spacing" :- enter "6 mm'
and then clikc on the button for "Distribute horizontally' --(secong one), the first icon is for "distribute vertically" and this will mess up the loyout in your case.
once done check the spacing.
thank you manish,got it,i rarely use that align feature,i forgot it exsisted. |
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How suicide is a particular problem for gay men.
The full scale of suicide among the gay and lesbian population is only beginning to emerge. Most attention is currently focused, rightly, on the number of young gay men who attempt suicide because of their sexuality, but evidence is also slowly emerging that there may also be related issues for older gay men.
The Stonewall 2012 Survey discovered that 3% of gay men and 5% of bisexual men had attempted to take their own life, compared to only 0.4% of men in general. In the 16- to 24-year-old age group, 6% of gay and bisexual men had attempted to take their own life compared to less than 1% of men in general.
There are similar findings for self-harming. 7% of gay and bisexual men had deliberately harmed themselves compared to only 3% of men in general, and in the 16- to 24-year-old age group, 15% of gay and bisexual men had harmed themselves compared to 7% of men in general.
On 8 May 2013 The Independent reported that more than 300 people a day are admitted to hospital for self-harming, a rise of almost 50 per cent over a decade ago. Self poisoning (taking overdose of tablets) mainly affects younger patients. Charity workers for SANE noted that roughly a third of patients attending Accident and Emergency for self-harming are released without any follow-up appointment.
In May 2013, the death of Mark Fear highlighted the need for further research into suicide among later age groups in the gay community. It is already well documented that the suicide rate for men generally increases with age.
In January 2014 a fresh survey reported by The Indendent found even more alarming figures: half of young gay people have suffered mental health issues, and 40 per cent have considered suicide.
In August 2016 the New York Times reported the first survey of gay, bisexual and lesbian high school teenagers in the US. It found that 40 percent reported that they had seriously considered suicide, and 29 percent had attempted suicide in the previous 12 months.
What can we do?
As activists we must fight this epidemic through reaching out, understanding, empathising and supporting people. We must do more to retain interest; instead of people coming and joining in once or twice then disconnecting, we must help them to integrate and take part, becoming long term members of and contributors to our community and organisations. We may need to follow up non-attendance. Where people are striving to reach their goals we must take an interest, mentor and encourage. We have already lost too many gay and lesbian people to suicide and we must resolve to do more to fight this scourge.
Very little is known of the incidence of mental health issues and suicide in the trans and bisexual communities. Gay Activist understands that members of these communities are at least just as badly affected as gay men and lesbians are, and that the gender reassignment process itself can create mental health issues.
If you yourself have been suicidal, read on; you may recognise in this article some clues about your own feelings which will help you to deal with them, and there are some resources at the end of this article.
What are the facts?
What are the factors that cause so many of our community to kill themselves?
Young men and women, generally
The suicide rate for young men has doubled since the early 80s, while for women it has almost halved.
12 young men kill themselves every week in the UK. Young men are more likely to die by their own hand than be killed in a car crash. Only 39 per cent of suicidal young men would consider phoning the Samaritans. 67 per cent of suicidal young men say they have nowhere to turn for emotional help.
Suicidal young men are four times more likely to smoke and ten times more likely to take an illegal drug to relieve stress. More than one in three young men would ‘smash something up’ instead of talking about their feelings. Less than one in five young men would ask their father for emotional support.
78 per cent of depressed and suicidal young men have experienced bullying. 69 per cent of suicidal young men have experienced violence from an adult. 50 per cent of suicidal young men have been in trouble with the police compared to 17 per cent of the non-suicidal.
A suicide in a family makes the remaining family members three times more likely to also consider and attempt suicide.
Gay young men and women
Lesbian young people are up to six times more likely to attempt suicide than heterosexual youth. Young gay men are 30 times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual counterparts: some have made as many as nine unsuccessful attempts to kill themselves. The highest rates of suicide are among those who are isolated from support.
US News reported that teenage gay people who have been rejected by their parents are far more likely to self-harm, take hard drugs and attempt suicide than teenagers who are wholeheartedly loved and supported by their parents.
Men and women, generally
Suicide is far higher – and rising – among unskilled men than among professional men. Men are more likely to kill themselves if they are from ethnic minorities, unmarried or gay. Men who have been in prison are more likely to attempt suicide than those who have not. More women than men attempt suicide each year, but are less likely to succeed. Women tend to choose overdose, which can usually be treated in hospital, while men tend to choose dramatic and violent methods of killing themselves. Suicide is now the biggest single cause of death of men aged 25 to 34, who are more than five times likely to take their lives as women of the same age, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. Each year about 3,600 men take their lives, compared to 1,200 women.
The situation for gay men is even more acute. 25 to 60 per cent of gay people seek counselling at some stage in their lives, reports Counselling Directory. Gay and bisexual men face a higher risk of considering and attempting suicide, and of killing themselves. Mind’s researchers interviewed nearly 3,000 gay and bisexual men between 1996 and 1998. They say that 73 per cent of gay men have experience of stress. In 35 per cent stress was due to their sexual orientation. 21 per cent of the men said they had previously made a plan to kill themselves, 12 per cent had attempted suicide, and a further 8 per cent had considered suicide because of their sexual orientation.
Older men, generally
Older men have the highest suicide rates in the UK. Suicide in older men is strongly associated with depression, physical pain or illness, living alone, and feelings of hopelessness and guilt. There is a lack of medical resources for older men. Older men also experience some specific hormonal, physiological and chemical changes sometimes referred to as the male menopause generally between the ages of 40 and 55, though they can occur as early as 35 or as late as 65, and can affect all aspects of a man’s life, including their mental health.
To summarise, the main factors causing higher incidence of suicide are:
Isolation and loneliness; the death of your life partner; inability to talk about their problems to anyone; the loss of a role in society; ill health; discomfort of the health service due to experiences of homophobia, and fear of being out with your doctor; distrust of counselling services with the expectation of homophobia; problems coming to terms with your sexuality or other aspects of your life and circumstances; a lack of family support and understanding; the fear of or experience of perceived or real failure; internalised homophobia; and having been prosecuted for criminal activity.
Samaritans helpline: 08457 90 90 90 (24 hours)
For local and national support groups and information services for specific problems look in your Yellow Pages Directory (in the first few pages of the directory)
World Mental Health Day is 10 October each year.
Acts of Parliament
Undated: Suicide.org: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Suicide
Undated: The Trevor Project: Facts about suicide
Ulster University News, 15 Dec 1999: Ulster’s Young Gay men 30 Times More Likely to Attempt Suicide
Guardian, 5 March 2001: Help at last for suicidal young men
US News, Dec 29 2008: Rejection of Gay Teens Linked to Later Troubles
Guardian, 6 October 2010: ‘I’d hoped that coming out as transsexual might temper my anxiety’
Independent, 13 Feb 2011: Suicide risk rises after criminal encounters: study
Independent, 12 Jan 2014: Mental health crisis looms for gay teenagers
New York Times, 12 Aug 2016: (USA) Gay and lesbian teenagers violence survey |
A note from Kirt Griffin:
A short time ago I made a comment in one of my articles that the Arctic Ice might be one of the largest summer minimums in at least 5 years. It appears that will not be the case. That requires that I point out my error and replace my prediction with a rational view of what is actually happening. One of the best is this by David Middleton.
Guest Post by David Middleton
“Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt… Right On Time”
I guess Professor Tedesco missed this…
“Ice cores from Summit show that melting events of this type occur about once every 150 years on average. With the last one happening in 1889, this event is right on time,” says Lora Koenig, a Goddard glaciologist and a member of the research team analyzing the satellite data.
How can an ice sheet surface melt be both “unprecedented” and “right on time”?
It can’t. However, nothing is impossible when you combine govt bureaucrats and the junk science of anthropogenic global warming…
Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt
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The fruit and vegetables in our local stores are very ordinary so it was a lovely surprise to visit a store a bit further afield and discover a huge selection. I bought a few items I wouldn't normally see when I'm out shopping. I believe that this store is quite special for its range.
The selection of tomatoes was huge! They even sold Heirloom tomatoes, I've only ever seen those in pictures before. No, I haven't led a sheltered life, I just live in the North of England!
Tomatoes, are they good for you or not? A member of the nightshade family, some say tomatoes contain solanine, a chemical and naturally occurring poison produced by the plant to protect it from bacteria. However, following many years of research, Dr Mendel Friedman believes that they contain tomatine a different alkaloid. So if you don't do well on nightshades maybe you should give them a miss but they do contain a huge amount of healthy nutrients.
So what are the health benefits of tomatoes? They are a very good source of :
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin B6
- Vitamin B3
- Vitamin B1
- Vitamin E
3 large yellow tomatoes
3 large red tomatoes
handful of fresh basil leaves
3 tblsps pine nuts
freshly ground black pepper
extra virgin olive oil
Gently heat a frying pan and pour the pine nuts in. Turn the heat up to a medium heat and toast the pine nuts. This only takes about a minute.
Tip into a bowl and leave on one side to cool.
Thinly slice the tomatoes.
Remove the hard core.
Wash the basil leaves and dry on some kitchen towel or a cloth.
Tear them into pieces. Put a layer of tomatoes in the bottom of a bowl and sprinkle with some of the torn leaves.
After a couple of layers season with a little black pepper and drizzle with a little extra virgin olive oil. I only used about one and a half tablespoons in the whole salad but you can decide how much you like. Continue to layer the fruit and leaves adding the basil, pepper and oil until you have used all your tomato slices.
Add some more freshly ground black pepper over the top
and a little more oil. Sprinkle the toasted pine nuts over the top.
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As swine flu ramps up in Ireland, what steps can we take to make sure our immune systems are ready? CLAIRE O'CONNELL investigates
IT WAS bound to happen – the influenza A H1N1 virus has started to rapidly gain ground in Ireland.
A surge in reported cases last week means “swine flu†is back hogging the headlines, and health authorities here anticipate the virus will continue to spread and cause illness over coming weeks and months.
No vaccine is available yet, and the official line is that anti-viral medication like Tamiflu is to be used only in severe cases, or where there is an underlying condition that could cause complications.
So it’s hardly surprising that DIY immune-boosters and remedies to counter viruses are now exciting interest.
The internet in particular is replete with lists of kitchen-cupboard anti-virals, including lemon balm and green teas, garlic and even plain old apple juice.
Meanwhile in the US, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been actively clamping down on websites selling products with unvalidated claims that they protect against H1N1 – they include a shampoo, essential oil inhalers, protective gloves, various supplements and an electronic instrument offering “photobiotic energy†to strengthen the immune system.
So are there any scientifically proven ways we can help bolster our body’s defences in preparation for exposure to swine flu?
“There is a lot of nonsense out there, but there is also some good science,†says Luke O’Neill, professor of biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin.
Top of his list of anti-H1N1 strategies is avoiding infection in the first place, and our behaviours can help stop the virus spreading.
“It’s the usual thing like washing your hands – it seems very trivial but general hygiene is important. And if someone is infected they have got to stay home,†he says.
But if H1N1 comes knocking, it’s your immune system that will answer the call, and again how we live our lives can affect our immune response.
“We have survived with viruses for millions of years because we have a very effective immune system, so the question is how do you keep that immune system going, and general things like good health will do that,†says O’Neill, who has done research on how the immune system is spurred into action.
Malnutrition, obesity, alcohol, certain diseases and medications and going short on sleep can compromise your immunity, he explains, and there’s also evidence that ongoing stress can weaken your defences.
“Low-level stress can have an effect on the immune system and that’s probably down to the hormone cortisol, which is made during stress and is a well known inhibitor of the immune system.â€
But, on the bright side, studies also suggest that keeping a good humour can give your immunity a helpful shot in the arm, according to O’Neill.
“Reasonably credible research over the last couple of years has shown that a happy state gives rise to a better immune system and they can measure that quantitatively,†O’Neill says.
One experiment divided participants into “glass half full†and “glass half empty†dispositions on the basis of brain scans, and found that optimistic people had a four-fold stronger immune response to a flu vaccine, explains O’Neill.
Meanwhile, people watching a funny film have been found to have increased levels of virus-busting cells in their blood compared with those who watched a more mundane movie.
The effect could be down to laughter producing more immune-boosting endorphins, which are also released when we exercise, he suggests.
However, the science is less encouraging about one of the most popular home remedies for fighting viruses: vitamin C.
“There have been many trials on it since the 1970s and no worthwhile effect has been shown,†says O’Neill, who notes that Nobel laureate Linus Pauling’s endorsement of the vitamin fuelled much investigation into whether it could really help protect against viruses like the common cold.
“People tried very hard to show an effect for vitamin C and they couldn’t find it,†he says.
“The best trials were done with identical twins in the same environment: they gave one vitamin C and one didn’t get it, then they looked at infections over the following months and there was no difference.â€
The dietary mineral zinc has also been hailed as an immune-booster, but O’Neill argues that we don’t tend to run short on it here.
“The society we live in is overnourished, it would be hard to find zinc deficiency in Ireland – so will taking [high] concentrations of it make a difference is the question, and there’s very limited evidence for that.â€
Nor does he see evidence for anything more than a marginal effect of probiotic drinks marketed as immune-boosters. “They are harmless I suppose, you are just paying money,†he says.
However, the herb echinacea has fared better as an anti-viral agent in scientific tests, although its exact mechanism remains unknown and there’s no evidence for any effect against swine flu, according to O’Neill.
“The bottom line is that there does seem to be an effect and it suggests it speeds up your immune response.†|
It never fails to amaze me that still after all these years, the UK thyroid establishment still fails to recognise the changes in the TSH reference range of "normality" especially at the hypo end that nearly all other countries have adopted since the arrival of sensitive tests. The reference range with present day sensitive tests is close to 0.6-3.5. Anything above that is NOT subclinical, it is overt. That is it needs treatment (T4) to begin with at steadily increasing doses until health is restored. Our latest paper in Nuklearmedizin - on file at TUK - contact Lyn Mynott or Louise Warvill for a copy - shows the reference range to be as above and certainly not stretching to 10. Even at TSH = 2.8 I personally would put a patient on watch to see if there was deterioration over time. Frankly, I do not understand the wooden intransigence of the UK specialists to reconsider and realise how out of step they are with everyone else. It's not clever; it's sheer ostrich behaviour by people who know best but apparently know nothing and learn nothing. The sensitive tests have for TSH increased its sensitivity. This does not mean that this has increased its utility, but requires more careful analysis of what the results mean. |
Satisfaction with Democracy and the Environment in Western Europe – a Panel Analysis
We construct a panel of satisfaction with democracy (SWD) and economic, institutional, and environmental variables for 1990-2001 for fifteen European countries. In this sample, controlling for a number of factors, we find that average SWD is higher where (1) there exists an energy / CO2 tax, where (2) government expenditures on the environment are higher, where (3) certain environmental regulations like packaging rules are in place, and (4) where the government puts in place environmental offices or other official bodies charged with addressing environmental concerns. We also find that, on the environmental quality side, (5) more cars on the roads, (6) less unleaded fuel, and (7) higher pesticide use intensity all decrease SWD.
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Leveraging land to enable urban transformation : lessons from global experience
Around the world, in both developed and developing countries, policy makers use a variety of tools to manage and accommodate urban growth and redevelopment. Government officials have three main concerns in terms of land policy: (i) accommodating urban expansion, (ii) providing infrastructure, and (iii) managing density. Together, the planning for infrastructure and urban expansion, land use, and density policies combine to shape the spatial structure of cities. This paper reviews global experience on using land based instruments to accommodate urban development and financing infrastructure. The review suggests that urban transformation is most efficient when land markets are fluid, particularly when they are grounded in strong institutions that (i) assign and protect property rights, (ii) enable independent valuation and public dissemination of land values across uses, and (iii) enable the judicial system to handle disputes that may arise in the process.
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United Nations Special Rapporteur James Anaya Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
James Anaya, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, a Norwegian newspaper has reported.
Torgeir Knag Fylkesnes, member of Norway’s Parliament, has nominated Anaya, the newspaper NRK reported on February 1.
“The world's Indigenous Peoples are in a particularly vulnerable position,” said Fylkesnes, according to a translation of the NRK story. “Their livelihoods are threatened by climate change and an ever increasing exploitation of natural resources.”
Anaya's work bringing attention to these issues qualifies him for the prize, one of five awards given annually, the parliamentarian said. Anaya has toured both Canada and the United States and released detailed reports on the deplorable conditions under which the Indigenous Peoples of both nations live.
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which is barred from releasing nominees’ names or any other information about the nominations for 50 years.
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Trudeau tries to bring Canada back to Asia at APEC summit in Manila — Security will be paramount when Canada welcomes refugees: Sajjan — Yvonne Jones slams ‘very racist, very hateful’ comments against Syrian refugees — Trudeau warned to go slow on changes to anti-terror law in wake of Paris attacks — Canada to beef up training of Iraqi forces but experts ask: ‘How far will it go?’ — Wrong to end ISIS combat mission, Ujjal Dosanjh says — Candice Bergen tweets embarrassment with Justin Trudeau — Trudeau formally commits to lifting visa requirement for Mexicans — Charges pending after man with knife arrested near Centre Block — Senator Mike Duffy to star in the last chapter of his long trial — Softwood Lumber Agreement missing from trade minister’s mandate letter — Race is on to be the next Commons Speaker — Air France flights diverted — French President Seeks to Build Grand Coalition Against Islamic State — Russia says plane brought down by bomb — Boko Haram believed behind blast in Nigeria that killed 32 — And finally, making climate change hot and sexy.
Good Wednesday morning to you.
After a 16-hour plane ride from Turkey, Justin Trudeau touched down in Manilla last evening, the second stop on his maiden international tour as prime minister. As CP’s Mike Blanchfield reports, over the course of the two-day APEC summit, his goal is to bring Canada back to Asia: “Trudeau will be trying to make inroads in a part of the world that Canada has repeatedly been accused of ignoring. And he will be under pressure to take concrete steps towards wrestling the mother of all trade deals to the ground — the Trans-Pacific Partnership that spans 12 countries and 40 per cent of the global economy.”
On the way to the Philippines, there was a rare occurrence on the prime minister’s plane that broke with Stephen Harper’s long-standing tradition: Trudeau actually went to the back to chat with journalists on board.
Here at home, Liberal ministers pledged that security will be at the forefront of the move to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada and said that a detailed plan to deliver on the government’s promise will be announced in coming days. “I think what we will do is make sure that security is at the forefront and we are in consultation with all of our security partners to make sure the we do this right,” Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan told reporters as he left a two-and-a-half hour meeting of the cabinet committee on refugees. Our Elizabeth Thompson has more.
As she continues to push the use of 5 Wing Goose Bay to screen Syrian refugees entering Canada, Liberal MP Yvonne Jones has also been busy slamming the ‘very racist, very hateful’ online comments against Syrians that she says have crossed the line.
In the wake of attacks in Paris, Justin Trudeau is being warned to go slow on changes to anti-terror laws. As the Citizen’s Ian MacLeod reports, “One leading expert says the new government’s planned changes to the five-month-old Conservative Bill C-51 anti-terrorism act should be handled with great caution, given the spectacular failures this year of the more experienced and powerful national security apparatus of France.”
Now that Canada has said it will beef up its training of Iraqi forces, the question is just how far will it go? CP’s Murray Brewster has that story.
Former Liberal cabinet minister Ujjal Dosanjh thinks Trudeau is wrong to end Canada’s combat mission in Iraq and Syria. “I hate war but I hate ISIS more,” he told CBC News Network. “What message are we sending to people across the world? That Canada is willing to walk away from the actual war to bring about peace? If that’s the message, I think it’s the wrong message for Canada.”
As for Conservative MP Candice Bergen, she’s just “embarrassed and sickened” by it all. Shortly after tweeting a picture of herself being sworn in, she moved on to a whiny, somewhat incoherent rant about Justin Trudeau. Wasn’t it just a few weeks ago she was prattling on about playing nice with the opposition?
Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto said yesterday that Trudeau formally committed to removing visa requirements for Mexican citizens entering Canada. That comes after the two met at the G20 in Turkey.
RCMP say charges are pending against a man arrested on Parliament Hill yesterday afternoon. As our Amanda Connolly reports, the man was apprehended outside of Centre Block for carrying a concealed weapon.
The long awaited last chapter of the Mike Duffy trial gets underway tomorrow. And as Jennifer Ditchburn reports, it will be headlined by a much-anticipated appearance by the main character himself. There’s even a slight chance former prime minister Stephen Harper will be called as a witness. Our Leslie MacKinnon has that story.
When the ministerial mandate letters for the new cabinet were released last Friday, the thing that stood out to political observers, beyond the unprecedented nature of their publication at the federal level, was the specificity of the marching orders. Which is why the omission, from Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland’s mandate, of the unresolved Canada-U.S. softwood lumber file raised eyebrows. But, rest assured — the government is working on it. Mackenzie Scrimshaw and BJ Siekierski report.
And it seems the race is on….to be the next Commons Speaker. The Citizen’s Jason Fekete says Ottawa Liberal MP Mauril Bélanger is lobbying heavily for the prestigious post, while Grit colleagues Geoff Regan, Denis Paradis, Scott Simms and Yasmin Ratansi are also interested.
Here and there:
Anonymous threats led two Air France flights to be diverted last night. Both were en route to Paris. The first out of Washington, landed in Halifax, while the second was diverted to Salt Lake City.
President François Hollande will be in Washington to meet with President Barack Obama and in Moscow to sit down with President Vladimir Putin next week as he lays the groundwork for a single coalition to fight ISIS.
His efforts to recruit Putin may not take as much convincing now that Russia has acknowledged for the first time that a bomb brought down a Russian jet full of vacationers in Egypt. ISIS has claimed responsibility for that crash. As the New York Times reports, the Russians have said they’re coordinating their military campaign with France in sharply ratcheting up attacks on Syrian territory, especially areas held by the Islamic State.
In Nigeria, a blast at a fruit and vegetable market in the northeastern part of the country yesterday has killed 32 people. Although there was no immediate claim of responsibility, it’s said to have all the Hallmarks of militant Islamist group Boko Haram.
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My question is that My brother has divorced his wife 14 months ago. He went to the get the divorce paper made himself. On which he said he signed there while he read on it 3 talaq being given in one time. He wasnt completely sure what that exactly meant. As in Pakistan they use it pretty much as a standard format. He did not get the two witness sign the divorce papers and posted one to his wifes address and the other copy that he had to submit at the council, that he did not submit till today. And both the copes were not signed by the witnesses but everyone got aware of his act obviously. He had problems with his wifes family. Later on his wife and her family contacted him numerous times for reconciliation but he refused. And at the same time he kept saying he is confused. Now after all this time that has passed and the way he has given this divorce will it be considered as 1 divorce or 3. Can he get back to his wife? And if Islamic talaq is how Quran says then how can any other method be valid for a muslim regardless if it changed with time. Quran is for all times And he says he followed this method just because this is the method in practice in the country judicial system. He wasn't well aware about the details. And on one side Allah is giving people repeated chances to unite on the other side all of a sudden by one unplanned mistake that u dont know much about you simple losse that right. How can anyones opinions be above the word of Quran.
Divorce (talaaq) is the right of the husband that Allah, may He be glorified, has given to him to be issued to his wife if there is a need to do so. The Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) affirmed that when he said: “(The right of divorce) belongs to the one who takes hold of the calf [i.e., her husband who has the right to intimacy].” Narrated by Ibn Maajah, 2072; classed as hasan by al-Albaani in Saheeh Ibn Maajah.
Al-Maawardi said in his commentary on the hadeeth: Divorce (talaaq) is given to the husband, to the exclusion of all others.
End quote from al-Haawi al-Kabeer, 10/356.
In al-Bayaan fi Madhhab al-Imam ash-Shaafa‘i (10/318) it says: The husband is the one who “takes hold of the calf (i.e., has the right to intimacy).” End quote.
‘Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Divorce (talaaq) is only in the hand of the one for whom intercourse is permissible.
End quote from al-Mughni by Ibn Qudaamah, 7/355
Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may Allah have mercy on him) said in ash-Sharh al-Mumti‘ ‘ala Zaad al-Mustaqni‘ (12/490): Allah, may He be exalted, has connected marriage and divorce to the husband himself, as He says (interpretation of the meaning): “O you who believe! When you marry believing women, and then divorce them…” [al-Ahzaab 33:49]. Allah has connected divorce to marriage, so divorce is in his (the husband’s) hands. End quote.
Based on that, it is not permissible for the court or anyone else to supersede the husband with regard to divorcing his wife.
In the case mentioned in the question, if the husband had divorced his wife one time only, then that alone is what counts as such, and what is written on the official papers that he signed is of no significance, so long as he did not intend thereby to issue a threefold divorce.
We only say that because by signing he is considered to have written the divorce, and writing the divorce is more akin to metaphor, as stated in fatwa no. 72291. Metaphor does not count as a divorce unless he intends it as such; if he did not intend by signing this paper to issue a threefold divorce, then there are no consequences to that, and he is not bound by anything except the (one) divorce that he issued to his wife. This divorce is revocable so long as it was not issued in return for some compensation or money, and was not a third divorce.
Based on the above, the husband has the right to take his wife back, even if that is without her knowledge or consent, if her ‘iddah has not yet ended.
But if her ‘iddah has ended, then he may marry her again, with a new marriage contract and mahr, but the previous divorce still counts as such.
However we should point out that the more correct scholarly view – which is what fatwas on this website are based on – is that if the husband issues a threefold divorce to his wife, it is to be counted as one, and divorce can only be regarded as having been issued three times if he divorced her on three separate occasions, then took her back each time.
This has been discussed previously in fatwa no. 96194
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Much has been written about sharpening. I’ve contributed to this mass of sometimes-confusing, often-contradictory literature. As a frequent instructor on the subject, I have some modest experience with the successes and failures of those learning to tune up their edges.
If any part of sharpening can be called fun, flattening is the least among them. It is certainly the most time-consuming, and it can be one of the most frustrating aspects, as well.
In earlier posts on my blog, I have recommended that students begin their flattening with a known quantity: a true, flat reference surface. Some students listen and take the plunge, purchasing a granite test plate, or one of the more expensive diamond lapping plates, also known to be flat. Others, for a myriad of reasons, choose to use a piece of glass, or a broken counter-top.
Many folks believe that these surfaces are fine to use for flattening. Float glass, in particular, is called the “flattest” glass. As often as I have looked, I can’t find a definition of “flattest”. Flatter than what? The old rippled glass from the late 1700s? Flatter than a stained glass window? I just don’t know. Same for a piece of countertop. I haven’t found a standard that defines when granite is flat enough to be called a countertop, and if that standard implies true “flatness” the way we need it for sharpening.
I’ve seen folks try to flatten their stones using a small DMT plate, with the long dimension of the DMT held at right angles to their water stones. If ever there was a sure bet to dish out (or round over) the water stone, that’s it. I’ve had students use all kinds of surfaces as their reference, trusting that these are indeed flat. Many of these same students are dismayed at the condition of the backs of their tools during the flattening process.
Why does this matter?
It matters because flattening is (at least) one-third of the sharpening process. The steel from the back of the tool makes up half of the cutting edge. And creating a true, flat surface on the back of a tool is the only action we can perform to guarantee a tool works the same way, sharpening after sharpening.
It matters even more because of the time you spend with your stones and your tools. Even a well-manufactured tool takes a while to polish. A less-expensive tool might take hours. How frustrating is it to work on the back of a tool, obtain a uniform scratch pattern (one of the telltales that our back is as flat as the abrasive), switch to a finer abrasive, and then discover that you’ve still got a hump or a hollow on the back? If you make this scary discovery, you are left with few options. You must make the correction at this point. All of your previous effort must be corrected, and if you don’t make the correction at this point, all your subsequent work will be wasted. So you go back, flatten your coarse stone on your reference surface, and try again.
But what it the reference surface itself is the culprit? What if there is a hollow in it, or a hump? Then you’re creating the opposite sort of defect in the stone, and your tool will never, ever be flat.
So, back to the beginning of this post. If you’re using glass, or a counter top, or any other “pretty flat” surface, you’re taking your chances. It matters not that float glass is “the flattest.” What matters is how flat your piece of glass, or granite, or steel, or whatever, really is. Unless you know the answer to this question, you take the chance that all of your efforts at obtaining a flat back will need to be redone.
This is why those of us who sharpen a lot, and teach others to do so – make the recommendations we do. It isn’t so our students run out and buy something else to clutter the shop. It’s a lesson most often learned through the painful experience of having to re-flatten tools because we didn’t listen when we should have.
Jeff Zens owns and operates Custom Built Furniture in Salem, Oregon. He is a frequent woodworking instructor and writer. |
Lady Nyo’s Torment, from “The Nightingale’s Song”, Part 6
“I stay here waiting for him
In the autumn wind, my sash untied,
Wondering, is he coming now,
Is he coming now?
And the moon is low in the sky.
The only company I have tonight,
Now near dawn, is the paling Milky Way,
And Oh, my husband!
There are not stars enough in the heavens
To equal my sorrowful tears.”
Hana Nyo threw back the quilted robe from her head.
It was just a dream, just a dream.
Then why does my heart pound so?
Two nights before
Lady Nyo and her nurse
Spent the hours til dawn
Watching the flame rise and fall
Through the shoji of Lord Nyo’s room,
Watched the candle
Consume the poems he was writing–
But to whom?
“Ah, he has another woman!”
Her nurse was loyal but leaned
On the privilege of time.
Lady Nyo’s heart took flight.
Fear and shame dueled
In her blood, pushing reason
From her head.
Did he know?
Did he know?
Did he know about the poems?
Did he know of the vanished lover?
For two days it rained.
November rains poured like
Waterfalls off the eaves,
Broke the stems of the chrysanthemums,
Scattered the flower heads,
Blew great gusts of wet wind into her room,
Blanketing an already sorrowful mind
With a seasonal fury.
Lord Nyo had ridden out
The dawn after
The Night of Burning Poems,
Dressed for hunting,
His falcon on his glove,
Not a word of farewell,
Not a baleful glance in her direction.
She watched him mount his horse,
And gallop away.
She watched from the slits between bamboo blinds,
Like a thief or a beggar,
She didn’t know what,
Only felt the sharp sting of shame,
A particular loss of something she probably
Lady Nyo spent the day journal writing,
Her misery reflected in an unpainted face,
Shunning food as a sacrifice:
The pain of her torment
Was not lessened.
“Once I did believe
That no love could still linger
Within my heart
Yet, a love springs from somewhere
And forces itself on me.”
“My eyes have seen you
But I’ve yet to hold you close
You’re like a laurel
That is growing on the moon
And I don’t know what to do.”
Yes, and I don’t know what to do.
Copyrighted, 2011, 2013
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Precautionary Principle: Profiting With Care
February 29, 2012 1 Comment
What is the Precautionary Principle?
Simply stated, the Precautionary Principle asks us to err on the side of caution. Following the Precautionary Principle as business leaders, for example, we would avoid using product ingredients that may be harmful in addition to avoiding those that we know are harmful.
Using the Precautionary Principle we would do more than simply follow the law – we would make the decision that would be in the best long-term interests of our customers and other stakeholders.
Proactive Leadership for the Long Term
The Precautionary Principle (PP) is a proactive way for leaders to make decisions that are the best over the long term. Using the PP, we take the long view and make decisions that offer the most protection to our company and its stakeholders.
It was originally formulated as a response to the constraints of policy and science in sufficiently addressing complex and uncertain risks and its consequences to human health and the environment (Tickner, 2003: xiii).
Rabbi Elamparo Deloso in “The Precautionary Principle: Relevance in International Law and Climate Change” a Masters Thesis in International Environmental Science, Lund University, Sweden
The Temptation to Squeeze Out Extra Profits
Using the Precautionary Principle as a basis for making decisions helps businesses avoid the temptation to squeeze out extra profits while something is “still legal.” The PP uses a broader definition of what is “responsible” and a narrower definition of the level of “harm” that is acceptable.
There is still some disagreement about how widely we should use the PP. Some leaders think precaution is critical and others think it is unnecessary. Here are two examples of what can happen when we do and do not use the PP in business decisions:
Example 1: Embracing PP and Avoiding Suspected Carcinogen
Erring on the side of caution, a company using the Precautionary Principle would stop using ingredients that were suspected carcinogens rather than waiting for a series of studies that showed with certainty that they caused cancer.
Regulations often lag behind science and consumer experience. Waiting for scientific certainty and for an ingredient to be banned, a company could harm millions of people and poison the environment.
Precautionary companies would take action to avoid the harm that might take place while we were waiting to be “sure” that it was actually harmful.
Example 2: Choosing to Do Harm
NPR did a news story on the cosmetics industry several years ago that revealed that some cosmetics manufacturers were using ingredients that were suspected of causing harm to people and had been banned in other countries. The cosmetics manufacturers were selling purer versions of their products in the tighter-regulation countries, but still selling the suspected harmful ingredients here in the U.S., where the Precautionary Principle had not yet fully been embraced.
Why would any business continue using ingredients suspected of being harmful? If they were using a narrow profit-based view of responsibility it could easily happen. If the banned ingredients were cheaper, and they were not yet illegal in the US, then legally they could be used.
……But is that a responsible decision?
The Importance of Profiting With Care
In a profit-based view of business responsibility, profits are not balanced against possible harm. That short-sighted view does not honor the way that we now understand our global leadership responsibilities. The world is more connected, and that connection informs consumers.
Businesses continuing to use ingredients that have been banned in some countries as possible carcinogens are finding that global shopping sites now rate them lower on ethical business.
The emergence of the PP has marked a shift from postdamage control (civil liability as a curative tool) to the level of a pre-damage control (anticipatory measures) of risks.
Precaution is Gaining Momentum
The Precautionary Principle is gaining momentum as the way the world can best deal with risk and human and environmental safety. Looking at ethics on a global scale, and our world as one global community, it makes sense to many to err on the side of caution when evaluating possible harm that choices could cause.
…philosopher C. West Churchman had struggled with the question, “What is morality?” He eventually decided that morality is “what a future generation would ask us to do if they were here to ask.”
Edward Cornish in his book Futuring: The Exploration of the Future, published by the World Future Society
Global principles (developed by diverse global groups) are including precaution as a required element of responsible business. The U.S. has now recognized the importance of Precaution as a guiding principle:
We believe: (number 12) even in the face of scientific uncertainty, society should take reasonable actions to avert risks where the potential harm to human health or the environment is thought to be serious or irreparable.
President’s Council on Sustainable Development. Sustainable America: A New Consensus, 1996, cited in The Precautionary Principle in Action: A Handbook
There are 17 international treaties and agreements that include the Precautionary Principle on pages 20-23 in The Precautionary Principle in Action: A Handbook, written by Tickner, Raffensperger and Myers for the Environmental Science Health Network.
Profitability is usually the reason that businesses continue using products after they are identified as possibly harmful or known to be harmful. At the same time that our economy struggles to regain stability, consumers are increasingly aware of how they are affected by the long-term greed of business leaders who have chosen to ignore precaution and cause harm. Consumers are aware that if you use an ingredient or process that you know MIGHT be very harmful in the long run, then you know that you MIGHT be causing them great harm, and you are still choosing to use that ingredient.
Today’s more informed consumers are seeking businesses and products that go well beyond following laws to intentionally demonstrate a higher level of care and concern for constituents.
Because the Precautionary Principle is broad and still being interpreted, I’ve included resources below that explore the complexities of its various interpretations.
Questions For Discussion:
1. In what areas are we applying the Precautionary Principle?
2. Where are we ignoring precaution so that we can increase profits?
3. What are the likely long-term results of our decisions as shown in our responses to questions 1 and 2 above?
4. What could we do now to apply the Principle of Precaution and how could that improve our brand?
For Further Reading:
Debating the Precautionary Principle by Henk van den Belt, PlantPhysol.org
“A Core Precautionary Principle” article by Stephen M. Gardiner, Philosophy, University of Washington, in The Journal of Political Philosophy
For information about cosmetic safety, see Market Shift: The Story of the Compact for Safe Cosmetics and the Growth in Demand for Safe Cosmetics at safecosmetics.org.
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Clash of Political Positions
Posted by Martin C. Fox on January 22, 2012
Robert Cogan’s Clash of Political Positions in the current Erie Reader got me to thinking about political tags from a Libertarian viewpoint. Mr. Cogan presents an enlightening comparison of political philosophies, primarily liberal, progressive, conservative and Libertarian. He describes many characteristics of each breed that I agree with. There are many unfortunate similarities also. These groups are not at all what they pretend to be. There are few real conservatives for example, at least not in the paleo-conservative Robert Taft tradition. The neo-conservative is definitely big government . Consider prescription drug programs, patriot act, perpetual war and no child left behind. Gingrich, as you may recall, was behind the contract with America that was to reduce government size and cost. That contract hit the shredder before the ink was dry. Believe nothing he says. Few of today’s conservatives and liberals ever met a war they didn’t like. Republicrats have taken the notion that America’s way is the only way. Polar opposite, multi-thousand year old cultures would be oh so much better as part of our empire…err under our most benevolent guidance. One hundred years (especially after WWI & II) of throwing groups together that hate each others guts and calling them countries , overthrowing rulers and otherwise interfering in things that are none of our business has the Balkans and Middle East in particular hating OUR guts. Bin Laden himself said the reason the US was attacked was because of years of covert and overt meddling in the Middle East’s business and violating sacred ground. It had nothing to do with our (dwindling) freedoms as the idiot W proclaimed. So much for the real conservative philosophy of minding one’s own business and no foreign entanglements. Where is the liberal “tolerance” in escalating drone wars in half a dozen countries that have done us no harm? Why on God’s green earth does the “progressive” Obama station troops in Australia that will only breed China’s antagonism? Would we tolerate China’s troops in the Caribbean? Why would a “progressive” Hillary advocate stationing missiles in Eastern Europe to protect Europe from Iran when real purpose is obvious to Russia? Liberals are the party of peace, right? I often wonder what the Nobel Peace Prize committee thinks of Mr. Obama now.
Mr. Cogan discusses Obama’s label. Is he liberal, socialist, Muslim or what? I see him as corporatist, the Fascist concept of government not owning corporations but controlling them. The government obtained enough of General Motors that it could fire its top level officials and dictate concentration on green hybrid autos. The Volt has since been a sales disaster. Most having to be recalled for auto-igniting batteries. So much for government not being able to take and control private property. Big government efficiency is up to its usual standards. The neo-conservative, liberal and progressive philosophical theories may differ but they are quite similar in practice. Power, money and control over you and me (for our own good, of course).
Mr. Cogan comments on Libertarians also. He makes the surprising statement that Ron Paul could do little because of the “extreme limits on presidential power”. Why am I thinking Patriot Act (George W.) and National Defense Authorization Act (Obama)? Paul, the antithesis of these gentlemen, may not be able to do all he wants if elected but his real goal is to bring his concerns to light. He has certainly put the spotlight on the abomination that is the Federal Reserve. Ignore the “isolationist” comments. It is an impossible concept in the modern world, unless you live in a country that makes you eat tree bark. Mr. Cogan describes Libertarians as “min anarchists”. Maybe so. One definition in my dictionary is government replaced by voluntary co-operative groups. Please Google Michael Rozeff and Panarchism. Libertarians are the third largest party in terms of appointed and elected officials. Yet there are few, if any, in high, powerful office. I have no doubt about Ron Paul’s commitment but the real question is if Libertarians (or pick your party) come to power, how long will they last before succumbing to the temptations of that foul serpent Washington?
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After it was heavily criticized as "racist" and "insensitive," Coca-Cola removed a special Christmas-themed ad from its YouTube channel on Dec. 1, according to the Guardian. The controversial ad meant to showcase unity and depicted a group of energetic, young white people entering a Mixe community called Totontepec Villa de Morelos in Oaxaca, Mexico, to joyously hand out soda and build a Christmas tree for its indigenous residents.
The ad was met with backlash from health and indigenous rights groups for not only having a colonialist perspective, but also for advertising soda to a population that is already struggling with high rates of obesity and diabetes due to soda consumption, the Guardian reported.
"It is a comment on our type of life and an attempt to put a culture of consumerism in it's place," indigenous lawyer Elvira Pablo said in a press conference on Dec. 2, according to Vice, calling the ad "an act of racism."
Activists along with Pablo also felt the ad reinforced stereotypes of native peoples for being "culturally and racially subordinate."
One Twitter user called out the ad by posting that Coca-Cola "is working on some genius colonialist branding in Mexico with its out-of-touch racist #AbreTuCorazon campaign."
Along with pulling the ad, Coca-Cola has issued an apology statement, "We deeply great that the message has been misinterpreted when our intention was the exact opposite of the criticism received."
The ad, which starts with "81.6% of indigenous Mexicans have felt cast aside and rejected for speaking another language," was meant to show brotherly love, Coca Cola said. It ends with "Stand together" emblazoned on the artificial tree. The campaign's hashtag was #AbreTuCorazon, which means "Open your heart."
McDonald's also made a cultural blunder earlier this year when it tried to advertise for its McBurritos by calling tamales, a traditional Mexican dish, a "thing of the past," the BBC reported.
The ad is still being streamed via third-party channels: |
It is understandable that the current GOP nomination race is focusing heavily on the economy. The U.S., and the world more broadly is facing an economic situation that has not been rivaled in severity for decades. For many voters in November there is only on issue that will determine their vote, the state of the economy. If you were better off in 2008 than you are in November 2012, it is good news for the Republicans. Yet it is important to remember that events have taken place across the globe during Obama’s presidency that will have a longer and more influential effect on global politics than the economic crisis of 2008. How a Republican president will deal with the after effects of the Arab Spring, a potentially nuclear Iran, an economically crippled Europe, a rising Asia, and a developing Africa, are all relevant and need to be considered by anyone who wishes to exercise their right to vote in November. Yet Republican candidates are not discussing in anything approaching enough detail their foreign policy proposals.
The foreign policy issue that has been dominating the news recently is the nuclear ambitions of Iran. On Wednesday it was announced that Iran has developed its first domestically-made nuclear fuel. This announcement comes a day after an American carrier moved into the Strait of Hormuz. There have also recently been assassination attempts on Israeli diplomats in Thailand, India, and Georgia. All of these events have escalated tensions in what were already strained relationships.
The response from the GOP candidate field has been disappointing and vague. Romney and Santorum stand out in the field as the neoconservative candidates. Yet specific plans have not been laid out. Should the U.S. put military forces on the ground in Iran or only act to assist Israel in defensive action? Would economic concerns alone be justification for war? If war breaks out, is nation-building part of on the table along with military victory? All of these questions and many others need to be put to the Republican candidate field. It is not enough to say, “I will not let Iran obtain a nuclear weapon." Indeed even Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), the non-interventionist in the group, needs to expand on what a Paul administration would do in order to have a functioning diplomatic relationship with Iran.
On Europe, the Republican field is worryingly vague. Europe contains America’s closest political allies, and is in the middle of a serious economic crisis. Throughout this election season the Republican field has only mentioned Europe as an example of what America might look like it is continues borrowing too much money. That might well be true, but a European foreign policy has to examine how the U.S. will deal with the potential rise of the authoritarian right and the socialist left. NATO will remain a crucial alliance in the coming years, yet it has remained largely absent from many of the Republican’s foreign policy discussions.
Obama recently passed the 50% approval mark. This, on top of encouraging employment figures would please the president without the dysfunctional and ambiguous Republican field. Despite expectations Obama has been a president who has actively engaged with the rest of world with a foreign policy that despite its faults appears to have been the subject of at least some consideration. At the moment the Republicans do not look ready to follow suit. |
Toivanen, Hannes (2005): Antitrust and the competitive structure of the U.S. pulp and paper industry, 1950-1990.
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National antitrust policies have potentially profound effects on global competitiveness of individual industries. Public policy interventions affecting organizational arrangements within industries, enforcement of commodity standardization, and price competition, as well as the regulation of intellectual property rights, are the major tools by which Government executes antitrust policies. This study documents the frequency, extent, and impact of U.S. antitrust policies toward the pulp and paper industry between 1950 and 1990.
Passage of the Celler-Kefauver Antimerger Act in 1950 marked the beginning of a new antitrust experience across the whole U.S. economy. Yet, the application of the Act required government to forge industry specific standards of competitive structure. The antitrust experience of the pulp and paper industry, and its distinct segments, was particularly industry specific when it came to the enforcement of Celler-Kefauver Act and its consequences. Between 1950 and 1990, antitrust disadvantaged pulp and paper firms whose competitive strategy was based on regional or product specialization. As in other industries, antitrust appeared to encourage successful and growth-seeking paper firms to diversify into new areas of business. Unlike in other industries, successful pulp and paper firms relatively rarely undertook so-called conglomerate mergers, and preferred to diversify and expand into other segments of the forests products industry. In the context of pulp and paper industry, new incentive structures that emanated from antitrust facilitated the rise of large scale forests products giants that resembled each other in terms of strategy and structure.
Antitrust between 1950 and 1990 shaped significantly the competitive structure of the U.S. pulp and paper industry, and probably transformed traditional arrangements for technological learning and the course of technological innovation. Industry’s recent performance and contemporary global competitiveness outlook cannot be understood without reference to its post-World War II antitrust experience.
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Allows you to create named commands. You must implement this interface to handle new named commands.
Assembly: EnvDTE (in EnvDTE.dll)
|Exec(String, vsCommandExecOption, Object, Object, Boolean)|
Executes the specified named command.
|QueryStatus(String, vsCommandStatusTextWanted, vsCommandStatus, Object)|
Returns the current status (enabled, disabled, hidden, and so forth) of the specified named command.
Theinterface allows you to implement named commands in the environment. It also allows you to define the status of a command or execute it.
If you enter a command that was added with the AddNamedCommand method to the Command window, the Command window first uses the QueryStatus method to determine if the command is enabled. The same also applies if you call the ExecuteCommand method.interface's
If you implement this interface in addition to IDTExtensibility2, then command execution is routed directly to this interface for named commands in your extension.
This interface is analogous to theinterface defined in the Win32 SDK, except that the parameters of the method are OLE automation-compliant. |
Certificate Enrollment in Windows CE .NET
Marcus Ash, Igor Dvorkin, David Cross, and Maricia Alforque
Microsoft® Windows® CE .NET version 4.0 with Microsoft Platform Builder 4.0
Summary: Learn about the certificate enrollment process and various options for acquiring a digital certificate for public key-based services and applications in Windows CE .NET. (9 printed pages)
Using the Enrollment Client Sample
Authenticating the Client
Creating a PKCS #10 Request
Posting the Request
Retrieving the Certificate
Creating an Enrollment Environment
Modifying the ASP Page
Other Enrollment Options
Smart Card Enrollment
For More Information
Microsoft® Windows® CE public key-based services and applications require a digital certificate. This certificate and its associated private key establish a trusted identity for an entity using the public key-based services and applications. Certificate enrollment involves a client and a certificate authority. The client is responsible for initiating the enrollment request and with providing all the necessary information to the certificate authority. The certificate authority is responsible for validating the request and issuing a certificate.
Windows CE .NET provides a code sample that illustrates the client role for certificate enrollment. The sample is used to obtain a certificate for a Windows CE device from a Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 with Web enrollment support installed. For the sample, the certificate authority is a Windows 2000 Certificate Server. The client sample is Enroll.exe and it is located in the %_WINCEROOT%\Public\Common\SDK\Samples\Enroll directory.
For more information about the Microsoft Certificate Server, see Windows 2000 Certificate Services and Step-by-Step Guide to Setting up a Certificate Authority technical articles in Microsoft TechNet.
The enrollment process between the client, the sample, Enroll.exe, and the certificate authority, Windows 2000 Certificate Server, involves the following steps:
- Authenticating the client or user.
- Creating a PCKS #10 request.
- Posting the request.
- Retrieving the certificate.
In a Windows desktop environment, Microsoft Certificate Services provide a set of customizable active server pages (ASP) to handle the various stages of certificate enrollment. Most of these pages communicate with a Windows desktop client through the Certificate Enrollment Control. The Certificate Enrollment Control is a Microsoft ActiveX® control that handles all of the client side operations in an enrollment scenario. The ASP pages combined with the Certificate Enrollment Control provide an Internet browser-based enrollment sample. However, many Windows CE devices do not have a browser and still require certificate enrollment capabilities. Because of that constraint, the Enroll.exe sample provides the capability for enrollment in an environment that does not include a fully functional browser.
Note Windows CE platform does not contain the Xenroll.dll, therefore it does not support the Icenroll interface available on the standard Windows platform.
The Windows CE enrollment scheme is based on standard Internet and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) protocols and can interact with the Windows 2000 Certificate Server without requiring added customization of the supplied templates and sample ASP pages. The following diagram illustrates the basic architecture and components for the enrollment sample included in Windows CE .NET.
Before a client can request a certificate, the client must be authenticated. Internet Information Server (IIS) authenticates the client by impersonating the client to the Microsoft Certificate Server and prevents anonymous access to the Certificate Server Web Enrollment pages. If the user credentials are not stored in the Windows CE client through the Credential Manager, the server prompts the client for credentials. You can also specify the user credentials in the enrollment configuration file, Enroll.cfg. For more information on enrollment configuration options, see the Configuring Enroll.exe topic.
Next, Enroll.exe creates a base64-encoded PKCS #10 certificate request message and sends it to the Windows 2000 Certificate Server. The Windows CE enrollment client generates a public and private key pair if one does not already exist. Then the client generates and signs a PKCS #10 certificate request using the private key.
The PKCS #10 certificate request contains the following information:
- Subject Name. This name is often a placeholder, because a Microsoft enterprise certificate authority will populate the subjectname and subaltname information automatically based on the credentials of the authenticated user and the information stored in the Active Directory. When using a standalone certificate authority, you must specify the subject information in the request and manually validate this information.
- User public key. This public key corresponds to the requestor's private key.
To simplify the enrollment process, Microsoft Certificate Services supports Active Directory-based certificate templates that reduce the amount of information a user has to provide. Instead of filling out a number of fields and specifying several parameters, the user can use a template that specifies most of the parameters required for a certificate. Various default templates include certificates for Client Authentication, Server Authentication, and Code Signing. The user selects the desired certificate template and the enrollment options available in the enrollment configuration file.
For more information about the default templates, see the Windows 2000 Certificate Services article in Microsoft TechNet.
The enrollment client posts the request over HTTP to the Certfnsh.asp page. IIS acts as the registration authority to the certificate authority to enable Web-enrollment methods. IIS uses CertCli.dll, a Windows 2000 Certificate Server component, to submit the request to the certificate services on behalf of the authenticating user. Note that Enroll.exe specifically uses the Certfnsh.asp page to post the request. Enroll.exe behaves as if the default sample ASP pages were not modified. If you modify the default ASP pages, see the Modifying the ASP Pages topic.
When the certificate authority has successfully processed the request and the certificate has been issued, the certificate request ID is returned to the client. The client posts a message to the Windows 2000 Certificate Server that includes the request ID for the certificate and the encoding type. This is specified by the CERT_PICKUP_TEMPLATE option in the enrollment configuration file and can be modified if the default page layout is changed.
Then the certificate is encoded and transmitted to the client over HTTP. On the client-side, Enroll.exe loads the certificate in the store specified in the enrollment configuration file; by default this is the "My Certificates" store. The certificate is associated with its private key by setting the CRYPT_KEY_PROV_INFO certificate property. Any certificate-aware application can now access this certificate from the store.
Note that Enroll.exe does not handle PKCS #7 messages. Individual certificates are retrieved from the Windows 2000 Certificate Server and do not include the issuer certificates packaged in a PKCS #7 message. However, you can add code to Enroll.exe to support PKCS #7 messages. Also, you can manually add the issuer certificates into the appropriate store using CryptoAPI 2.0 functions or using the certificate control panel applet provided in Platform Builder.
To create an enrollment environment between your Windows CE device and a Windows 2000 Certificate Server, complete the following setup. The setup makes these assumptions:
- You have a default Windows 2000 Certificate Server already configured. For more information, see Step-by-Step Guide to Setting up a Certificate Authority technical article in Microsoft TechNet.
- You have not changed the Enroll.exe sample.
- You have specified the correct configuration options in the Enroll.cfg file.
To prepare a Windows CE device for enrollment
- Start Platform Builder.
- Create a platform for your Windows CE .NET device.
- Ensure that the following variables are set in the platform:
- Build the platform.
Enroll.exe is included in the flat release directory.
- Download the platform and the Enroll.exe to your Windows CE device.
You are now ready to obtain a certificate for the Windows CE device.
To obtain a certificate
- Make sure that your device is connected to the network.
- From the Start menu, point to Run.
- In the Run dialog box, type enroll -s<name>, where <name> is the name of a certificate server on the Windows XP network, and then choose OK.
If the Windows CE client does not have the user credentials stored, a Windows logon dialog box appears. The -s option with Enroll.exe causes the application to ignore the configuration file.
You can use the -f option with Enroll.exe if you want to use the configuration values specified in Enroll.cfg file. Make sure that you specified the correct configuration options.
- Type your Windows networking user name, domain, and password, and then choose OK.
To verify the certificate
- From the Start menu, point to Settings, and then choose Control Panel.
- In Control Panel, point to Certificates, and then choose My Certificates.
Several details of the enrollment can be configured without modifying the source code of Enroll.exe. These options are specified in a configuration file, Enroll.cfg, which is passed as a command line parameter to Enroll.exe.
The following command line causes Enroll.exe to read its settings from the text file Enroll.cfg:
The following table describes the supported options in the configuration file and specifies the default values of Enroll.exe.
|SERVER||Name of the Internet Information Server (IIS) Web server front end to the certificate authority.||No default value. You must provide the server name.|
|USERNAME||User requesting the certificate (domain\user).||No default value. You must provide the user name in the domain\userName format.|
|PASSWORD||User password.||This is mainly for testing purposes. For security reasons, storing the password is not recommended.|
|CERT_STORE||Name of the CryptoAPI system certificate store where the certificate will be saved.||MY|
|KEY_CONTAINER_NAME||Name of CryptoAPI key container.||No default value. If you do not specify a key container name, the application uses the default unnamed key container.|
|KEY_PROVIDER_NAME||Name of cryptographic service provider to use.||Default PROV_RSA_FULL cryptographic service provider type. In most cases this is the Microsoft Enhanced Cryptographic Provider 1.0.|
|DW_KEY_SPEC||Type of public key to use.
1: Key Exchange
|DW_FLAGS||Hexadecimal flags passed in to CryptGenKey. The only flag that may be of interest is 0x1 (CRYPT_EXPORTABLE). This flag marks the private key as exportable.||0|
|DW_PROV_TYPE||Parameter to CryptAcquireContext specifying the type of cryptographic service provider.||1(PROV_RSA_FULL)|
|CERT_OTHER_ATTRIBS||The certificate Attrib field in the certificate request. This is used to specify the certificate template name. This string must be URL content encoded.
For example, if you want to use ClientAuth certificate template, then the new string is CertificateTemplate%3AClientAuth%0D%0A.
For more information, refer to the Certfnsh.asp page and the Windows 2000 Certificate Services article in Microsoft TechNet.
If you modify the default location of Certfnsh.asp page, you must specify the new location through the CERT_REQ_PAGE option in the enrollment configuration file. By default, Enroll.exe expects Windows 2000 Certificate Server to provide Certfnsh.asp. The following code shows the default Enroll.exe certificate request:
XXXX is the base64 URL encoded certificate request.
Enroll.exe expects Certfnsh.asp to display a page containing the request number to pickup the issued certificate. The following example shows the default text in the Web page returned by Certfnsh.asp:
XXX is any variable length text and
### is the certificate request ID passed to CERT_PICKUP_TEMPLATE.
If you modify Certfnsh.asp, you must change the BuildPutRequest and ParseWebPageToFindReqNo functions in Crypt_web.cpp to match the changes. The Crypt_web.cpp file is located in the %_WINCEROOT%\Public\Common\SDK\Samples\Enroll directory.
If you change the default location of Certnew.cer, you must specify the new location through the CERT_PICKUP_TEMPLATE option in the enrollment configuration file. By default, Enroll.exe expects Windows 2000 Certificate Server to provide Certnew.cer. The following example shows the default request to pickup the certificate:
### is the certificate request ID returned from Certfnsh.asp. Enroll.exe expects a valid base64 encoded certificate.
If you modify Certnew.cer, you must change the GetCertFromWebBrowser function in Crypt_web.cpp to match the changes.
The following table describes the other enrollment options:
|Control panel applet||You can use the control panel applet to import a certificate and a private key on your platform. To import it onto a Windows CE device, the private key must be in the Private Key (.pvk) format.
Note that Windows 2000 and Windows XP certificate export wizards do not support the .pvk files. However, Windows 2000 Certificate Services supports the ability to export private keys to a .pvk file through an advanced certificate request. For more information, see the Windows 2000 Certificate Services article in Microsoft TechNet.
|Custom enrollment client||To create a custom enrollment client for other certificate authorities, you can leverage CryptoAPI 2.0 functions and other Enroll.exe functionalities.|
|Smart card||Smart cards provide the flexibility of enrollment from any client device that supports smart cards, such as a desktop PC. You can import a certificate onto Windows CE and keep the associated private key on the smart card. This method provides an extra layer of security and prevents the problem of having multiple copies of the private key when you have exportable keys that you import to Windows CE from a private key file.|
A certificate solution based on smart cards requires a Windows CE Cryptographic Service Provider (CSP) for the specific type of smart card. A typical smart card CSP fulfills the following requirements:
- Exposes a CSP interface compatible with the Microsoft RSA provider (RSAENH.DLL).
- Uses the smart card to save private keys securely.
- Uses the smart card to perform private key operations such as key exchange and digital signing.
- Restricts access to private key operations with a user-supplied PIN.
- Optionally, saves the user certificate on the smart card, by implementing the KP_CERTIFICATE key property. This capability allows the smart card to be used on a different machine.
Smart card certificate enrolment can be done from either a Windows-based desktop PC or a Windows CE device using a tool like Enroll.exe. You should save the certificate to the smart card if possible. On first use, the Windows CE device should extract the certificates stored on the smart card and saves them to the local system store for use by applications. The Windows CE certificate control panel applet is capable of performing this step.
For more information about the Microsoft Certificate Server, see the following Microsoft TechNet technical articles: |
Reiki Healer jobs(Also known as Reiki Healing, Energy Healing)
A Reiki healer harnesses and manipulates life energy in order to improve the well being of a client. Reiki healing is based on the idea that there exists a universal life energy or force that can be harnessed to induce a healing effect. A Reiki healer comes into more direct connection with this energy via a process of attunement, carried out by a Reiki master. Treatments are undertaken by the healer moving his hands over the patient's body in either set patterns or in correspondence to problem areas. Reiki was invented by Mikao Usui in 1922 after 21 days spent in fasting, meditation and prayer on top of Mount Kurama, Japan. The type of Reiki practised widely in the west today can be attributed to one of his student's students, Hawayo Takata, who travelled extensively in the US and is a simplification of the original Japanese Reiki.
SalaryMost Reiki healers are self-employed and charge on a per treatment basis. Therefore their annual income will depend entirely on the size of their client base. The amount charged per session depends upon the location and the facilities of treatment rooms. Overheads such as equipment, room hire and promotions have to be taken into account and this will impact on the price charged.
- A newly qualified Reiki healer may charge from £20 to £40 per session.
- An experienced Reiki Healer working from a location in central London may charge up to £100 per session.
ResponsibilitiesA Reiki healer may undertake any of the following in a normal working day:
- Preparing themselves for treatment, raising their own energy levels and attuning themselves
- Undertaking client consultations and taking notes
- Treating clients by applying the energetic principles of Reiki
- Performing distance treatments at pre-arranged times
- Self promotion and advertising work
- Book keeping and accounts
QualificationsThe teaching of western Reiki is usually organised into three distinct phases:
- First Degree
- Second Degree
- Third Degree or Reiki Master
First DegreeThis usually consists of four sessions in which the novice is attuned at each session by a Reiki master and learns theory, basics and the set hand positions suitable for 'whole body treatment'. The student can now treat himself and others with Reiki.
Second DegreeIn addition to a further attunement the student undertakes to learn the use of the three symbols, both of which are said to increase the flux of energy through the student and increase the distance at which he can practise Reiki on a patient. Having completed this, the student can now practise distance Reiki, treating patients without being physically near them.
Third Degree or Reiki MasterThe student learns a new master-level symbol and undergoes more attunements. He is now a Reiki master who can attune and teach Reiki to novices. The amount of time taken to reach master level varies from a matter of days to a year, depending entirely on the organisation involved.
SkillsA Reiki healer should work on developing the following personal characteristics:
- An empathetic nature
- A non-judgemental approach towards individuals
- Excellent communication skills
- The ability to put clients at their ease
- The ability to formulate responsible patient relationships
- Good organisational skills
- A self-motivated and positive approach to life
Working ConditionsA Reiki healer usually works from a clinical treatment room which contains a massage couch for patients to lie down on. This could be a room in their own house or in an alternative medicine centre along with other practitioners. Additionally Reiki healers frequently make home visits to treat those unable or unwilling to travel. A Reiki treatment usually takes from between 40 minutes and an hour and a half including an initial consultation. Hours can be long in order to accommodate clients outside normal office hours, and evening and weekend work are common. The gender split in Reiki healers leans towards more female practitioners than men.
ExperienceIn the course of their learning, Reiki students are encouraged to practise on others as frequently as possible. Additionally students practise Reiki on themselves. Any experience in a client facing, health care or caring role would be beneficial as this is ultimately a 'people' job.
EmployersPrivate alternative medicine clinics are the most frequent employers of Reiki healers. Check your local listings for details. Most Reiki healers are self-employed and advertise their services on the Internet, in health food shops, community centres and by word of mouth.
Career ProgressionMany Reiki healers already have, or go on to gain qualifications in other forms of alternative or complementary medicine. This increases the resources they have to treat an individual and thereby raises earning potential. Examples include acupuncture, massage, reflexology or aromatherapy. Experienced Reiki healers can go on to become Reiki masters where they can train and 'attune' novice practitioners.
Ahurra Milett (also known as Bob), 33, is an Energy Therapist specialising in Reiki and Bio-Energy Therapy. He works from the Highgate Health Centre in North London. |
While trying to copy my 6+ GB data to a 8GB usb flash drive in my microsoft windows seven installation i received an error :
The file is too large for the destination file system
Quite amazed at first that why am i getting this too large for the destination file system error, as the usb was completely blank!
The file is too large for the destination file system – Windows 7 usb error
However here’s how i fixed the issue (btw, this also works for external hard disk drives as well as usb flash drives).
Fix file is “Too large for the destination file system” usb error
- I checked the file system of the usb getting the “too large for the destination file system error” and it was FAT32 (you can skip this step though)
- Goto My Computer
- Right click usb drive and click format
- chose NTFS and click on quick format check box and click format to start the format process
- Try copying the file again and voila! it’s working now!
Please note, all the data inside the flash drive will be deleted once you format it. So backup any important data if you have any in it.
Hopefully you won’t get the file is too large for the destination file system error while copying file on your usb flash drive on windows operating system!
Format Flash drive to NTFS using command line
(thanks to Paul) – if you want to do it via command line
the command for converting fat32 to ntfs is as follows
Start > Run > Cmd
convert d: /fs:ntfs
where d: is the drive letter of the external disk. |
Patch Tuesday is bringing seven security fixes, with Microsoft deeming four of them “drop-everything-and-fix-this-now” critical.
The patches are for Windows, Internet Explorer and Office, as well as a sprinkling for Windows Server and Silverlight.
Microsoft says that four of the patches will address “critical” vulnerabilities.
“Critical” is, of course, Microsoft’s highest severity rating.
It covers self-propagating malware such as network worms or common-use scenarios in which code is executed without warning or prompt, such as when users open booby-trapped email or suffer drive-by attacks from maliciously rigged webpages.
In this patch go-round, Microsoft warns that critical flaws might allow for remote code execution on Windows, Internet Explorer, Silverlight and Office.
Another critical vulnerability would allow for elevation of privilege on Office and Server Software.
Flaws rated “important” could lead to elevation of user privileges or the disclosure of user data or personal information.
On Microsoft’s vulnerability executive summary page, the company says that some of the critical patches relate to Mac users as well as Windows.
Hackers exploiting that vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the current user.
Of course, as soon as Tuesday comes, malicious hackers will be glued to their screens. They’ll be checking out Microsoft’s patches and will get to work on code to exploit computers whose owners or system administrators haven’t patched, pronto.
As for the vulnerabilities that have been publicly disclosed, well, those attackers have that much more of a head-start.
This month, as with every Patch Tuesday, the longer you wait to apply the security patches, the more time attackers will have to finesse, and launch, their attacks.
So don’t delay: patch as soon as possible.
On the surface of it, March doesn’t look half as gnarly as the monster-sized 57 updates that Microsoft dumped on our doorsteps in February.
But numbers don’t tell the whole story. For every corporation, every patch brings the possibility of conflicts.
So this week, tiptoe gently around the support people. Lord knows they’ll be busy making sure the place stays afloat. |
Head in the Clouds
You may have heard of having your head in the clouds, but what about your computer? Cloud Computing is a trend that is taking the computing world by storm. You have probably already done some cloud computing without even knowing it. Do you have a Hotmail or Yahoo! mail account? Do you use Google Docs or Google Calendars? If so, you’ve done some cloud computing.
Cloud Computing is basically the use of web-based services, whether it is an email client such as Hotmail, or document storage such as Google Docs or Me.com, instead of relying solely on your computer or server to store your software and files.
There a number of reasons why libraries or organizations might head to the clouds. Web services can be implemented quickly and modified equally fast. There is no need to install hardware or keep track of software licenses. It is nimble and can expand or contract as needed. If you need more storage, you can increase it with a phone call. Need more email addresses? Another phone call and done! It’s quick and easy.
Many large companies such as Amazon, Google, and IBM have found Cloud Computing to be cost effective. Through using web-based services, they spend less on hardware purchases and only pay for the services they require. If you use someone else’s server to store your files, you don’t need to buy one yourself. If you own fewer servers, you spend less on maintenance costs.
Of course with every new service, there are issues. Two of the biggest concerns with having another company house your files are security and privacy. Some businesses are hesitant to put their confidential files in the hands of another business. The hosting company must have excellent security in place to prevent hackers from accessing client information.
Privacy is also an issue. When clients can login from any computer and access data, this can compromise privacy. Authentication techniques must be in place, as well as guidelines for where and when clients should access documents. The hosting company’s reputation will depend on their ability to ensure the security of customer data.
You may wonder if Cloud Computing is just a flash in the pan. I doubt it. With the economy the way it is, companies and individuals are looking for affordable solutions to their needs. Why spend $500 on a laptop, when you can purchase a netbook for half the price, especially if all your documents are online? You do not need to buy an expensive computer with a huge hard drive for storage. As long as you have something that can access the Internet, whether it’s a netbook, iPad, computer, or cell phone, you have access to your files. My forecast shows more clouds in our future.
For more information about cloud applications, request any of the following workshops: “Library 2.0”, “Google 2.0”, or “Head in the Clouds: Cloud Computing for Libraries”. I can be reached at: email: firstname.lastname@example.org and phone: (978)662-2119. |
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understanding evolution has _____ applications such as fighting diseases and saving endangered species
natural selection act's on individual's _____ and the population evolves (allele frequencies change)
small evolutionary changes accumulate over long time periods and generate large evolutionary changes like ____
natural selection reduces the representation of less advantagous traits in the _____ environment (but environments change!)
as environments change, the traits that lead to increased ______ can also change
sanitation, nutrition, antibiotics
_____, _____, ______ greatly reduced cases of TB over 1950-1990 but now it is coming back
human activities (changing environments) are causing ___________ natural selection
directional natural selection unintentionally caused by humans: hundreds of disease causing bacteria have evolved resistance to antibiotics
directional natural selection unintentionally caused by humans: over 600 species of insects and mites have evolved resistance to pesticides
directional natural selection unintentionally caused by humans: hundreds of weedy plants have evolved resistance to herbicides
directional natural selection unintentionally caused by humans: this is NOT ____ (because is unintended)
a pattern of natural selection in which heterozygous individuals have higher fitness then homozygous individuals
example of balancing selection: carriers of sickle-cell anemia are more resistant to than HH genotypes
if having ____ morphological complexity leads to higher fitness, then the frequency of those alleles will increase in a population (regressive evolution)
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As someone who works with young people and primarily young American Indians, I know I play a unique role in sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevention efforts. Not only do young people ages 13 to 24 account for nearly half of all new STDs, but among American Indians and Alaska Natives rates of gonorrhea and chlamydia are four times the rates among white Americans. What’s more, between 2009 and 2010, gonorrhea rates increased 21.5 percent among American Indians and Alaska Natives.
As a Native American from the Santo Domingo Pueblo, New Mexico, I provide trainings focused on cultural sensitivity and diversity to youth and adults working with or within New Mexico’s 19 Pueblos and two tribal nations. These youth-focused trainings are useful for STD and teen pregnancy prevention, and they are truly effective when young people use the tools and information learned in the training to become youth educators. As a youth worker, my role is not only to provide youth-positive health education, but also to foster youth educators and leaders.
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I work with people of all ages to improve the health and well-being of our Native American community. My audience includes everyone from fifth graders to adults to at-risk youth in treatment, detention centers, or leadership programs. And while working with people of all ages is rewarding, one of the best successes I’ve had is when I use youth trainers. I believe that all young people flourish when they see “people like them” leading events and teaching them new information. This not only increases personal self-esteem but also increases interest in Native American culture and traditions for our community. Fostering this community connection is essential for STD prevention among young Native Americans.
I greatly enjoy this work and I know it is greatly needed work. Creating and designing programs about teen pregnancy prevention, STDs, and healthy relationships is a challenge. And although crafting “hands-on” interventions is difficult, I provide my groups with accurate information that meets the needs of young people. Through the use of games, incentives, classroom discussions, and wilderness settings, I have been able to explore not just STD prevention, but concepts such as substance abuse and suicide prevention, health education, creating healthy relationships, and boundary setting.
One of the main reasons why I was able to meet the needs of my students through such a youth-positive and interactive way was because of the Native STAND (Students Together Against Negative Decisions) curriculum. Native STAND is a comprehensive curriculum for training peer educators that promotes healthy decision-making for Native youth. All youth—including Native youth—face extreme pressures to fit in and belong. To make the best decisions for themselves, youth need factual, science-based information delivered to them in a way they can relate to, by people who they can trust and feel comfortable talking to. Peer educators can fill this important role—and my role is to believe in peer educators, train peer educations, and support peer educators.
I use Native STAND in partnership with organizations like the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD). NCSD spearheaded this curriculum, and it was the best curriculum that I could find that is not only culturally appropriate but fun and educational.
As a young person from the same communities as my students, I find it more and more culturally relevant that our younger generation educate each other. I don’t think we can work on sexual health education for young people without working with young people. This model not only fosters a caring atmosphere, but also promotes an environment where younger generations revitalize the culture of our ancestors. The traditions and values that I was raised with and still practice today are the values of community, family, love, support, and cultural pride. These values help me to enrich the lives of people with whom I am fortunate to cross paths and I plan to do this work for a long time. |
What is FIFO?
In an inventory managment based system, like xtuple, you can pick a number of methods to value the stock. The primary one available in xtuple being 'standard cost', which basically sets a single value to a item of stock and uses that to calculate the value of stock on hand and also the profit (eg. the difference between stock sold and how much it cost to buy). It then uses an item cost variance account to account for differences in purchases and this value.
FIFO stands for First in / First Out, in a FIFO based stock valuation, any stock that you sell is, as closely as possible, based on the cost your really paid to acquire the product. In our version of FIFO, we also include the Freight costs to acquire the product and can include any tax paid to acquire it.
The complexity of FIFO is based around tracking the sale of a purchase based on the order it came in,
In the classic example, you ordered 2 batches of product X, the first order you bought 100 pcs at $10, then a few months later you bought 200pcs at $8. The total stock valuation would be 100x$10 + 200x$8, now as you start selling the product, you remove 50pcs (and you account that as being sold from the first batch at $10), then later you sell 100pc. part of that is valued at the $10, the rest is valued at $8
Seems quite simple, but when you are selling thousands of items, with hundreds of orders, it starts getting more than a little bit complicated to work out.
Xtuple is basically a postgresql database with a rather large number of stored procedures, on top of this is a Desktop GUI, and we also developed a web based GUI. both interfaces generally talk to the database via the stored procedures (and some views). There is some direct interaction with the database tables, but for all transactions this tends to be done via the stored procedures.
In our initial design we did consider modifying the stored procedures, but eventually we settled on using triggers on certain tables to add richer data, this meant that to a large degree we could keep using xtuple code, and update whenever a release came out without to many implications.
The standard package of xtuple only supports a single warehouse, it does however support multiple locations within that warehouse, in our implementation we needed over 100 consignment locations and about 5 different warehouses. So we implemented these warehouses as xtuple locations. Locations normally in xtuple refer to locations within a warehouse. We also needed to track the value of stock in all these locations, which also affected how the fifo implementation was done.
Tracking stock related changes.
The first part of the integration was creating a new table invfifo, which tracks both the invdetail and invhist tables, a new view was created that joined all 3 tables together and was used throughout to query information on stock. The tracking was done by a trigger on the invdetail table, as soon as a record was added and posted to the invdetail table, a new record in the invfifo table was created.
When the row is added to the invfifo table, it does not actually calculate the fifo value, as this is a time consuming process and as explained later, It would have made standard transactions in xtuple to slow to use. So all that is done is to keep track of the total incoming and total outgoing in a specific location.
The effect of this was that we kept a invfifo_qty_before and invfifo_qty_after column, for both incoming and outgoing these numbers would increase.
Dealing with voids
As with all systems that involve user interaction, there is an intrinsic need to handle data changes after they have been committed to the database. In Xtuple this is done generally by posting a reverse transaction which undoes the inital operation, so if you ship a product, it reduces the stock by X pcs, then to void it, you do not delete the transaction, rather create another transaction that increases the stock by the same X pcs.
This not only added complexity later on to the calculations, but also added considerable noise when looking at inventory history. To alleviate this, we ended up writing code that examines the history of stock and flags these reversals and the original transactions as void. and the stock movement (and later the price valuation) of these transactions are set to zero.
Calculating the fifo value for incoming stock.
This is probably the simplest part of the equation, stock coming into the system is based on the original purchase price, so the unit cost just reflects the Purchase Order. In addition to this we add a proportion of the 'landed cost' (the freight cost and tax cost) to each unit cost to come up with a final value for the product.
As the frieght charges may be applied later than the original purchase, the full valuation of the history of a product in a location has to be redone quite often, as obviously the purchase price affects the sale value.
Calculating the fifo for outgoing stock.
This is where the qty_before and qty_after are used, using a simple query, we can sum the costs of incoming stock on a range of quantities for outgoing stock
The magic query that calculates this is below - this is encapsulated in a stored procedure.
((i_qty - invfifo_qty_before ) * invfifo_landedunitcost),
invfifo_qty_before <= i_qty
invfifo_qty_after >= i_qty
invdetail_location_id = i_location_id
invhist_itemsite_id = i_itemsite_id
invdetail_qty > 0
invfifo_void = 0
As usual with any stock based system the whole code-base has to cover the situation where products are sold when there is no stock available (frequently as it has not arrived yet, or the data has not been entered). So all the calls to this code have to check if it returns a sensible value.
Running the calculations
In addition to the above calculations a few other scenarios have to be covered, stock relocation, is done in a pair, where the outgoing value is calculated first, then used directly for the value of incoming stock.
All these calculations are run from the beginning of time, on each location / product, however if nothing has changed or the sum of changes on the last run is $0 then it is not calculated.
What happens when running the calculations is that stock valuation is adjusted from one transaction to another, this is especially true as stock is relocated, and it's value is moved to a different location. When the calculation is run the first time, it frequently results in a large number of valuations being changed, the sum of which is stored at the end in a summary table. if you run the same sequence again on the same location / stock. the sum change reduces until it eventually becomes $0 after a few goes.
Applying the valuations to the General Ledger.
Having manage to work out a valuation for all the transactions, this now needs to be applied to the General Ledger. Each type of transaction affects different accounts in the general ledger, for example the fulfillment part of a Sales Order would reduce the value of the inventory Asset, and increase the costs of goods sold. For Sales orders, a total adjustment is applied as a Journal entry recorded as a FIFO adjustment, this is calculated based on the difference between the actually cost recorded by the transactions and the expected cost based on the product value. It has to be updated each time the value of the products being sold are changed.
These types of calculation have to be applied to Credit Memos, Invoices (without Sales) and Miscellaneous adjustments. They are run every night, so during the day, the valuation of the stock may become out of sync with reality, however if you look at the end of last months accounts they usually reflect the current position at that time.
Well after quite a long period of testing, and debugging we finally got stock valuation figures for over 500K transactions within a few hundred dollars to match the GL account, and show an reasonable stock valuation. The initial run for a FIFO calculation takes around 2 hours on that number of transactions, but after that, the daily run takes about 20 minutes overnight to do the calculations and make the adjustments. It does affect the speed of our processing of orders slightly, but this is more due to the issue that we have automated the distribution and receipt of large orders, rather than having to distribute each item line by line.
If you need more information or are interested in using this code please contact firstname.lastname@example.org |
Southern Carmine Bee-eater
a White Faced Ibis… …
The Kea (Nestor Notabilis) is a large species of parrot of the superfamily Strigopoidea found in forested and alpine regions of the South Island of New Zealand.
Majestic & Tiny Little Wonders
What a beautiful red bird
I don't like birds.... But they are BEAUTIFUL!!!!
I Love Animals
Teal owl… I really wonder if the color has been changed on this owl, if not how Beautiful
Love It !
Just look at those tail feathers! Más
Birds and Animals |
Two questions to get you going:
How hard is it for you to admit that you are struggling (1 to 10)
How easy it is for you to wait? (1 to 10)
If it is difficult for you to admit that you struggle or hard for you to wait, then Psalm 130 may be for you!
Psalm 130 teaches us two things–we should be honest about our struggles and we should wait! Eugene Peterson writes about the two great realities of Psalm 130: suffering is real and God is real. “Suffering is a mark or our existential authenticity; God is proof of our essential and eternal humanity. We accept suffering; we believe in God.” 145
Verses 1 and 2 allow us to admit to a feeling of being overwhelmed. Reflect on the first phrase, out of the depths and examine Psalm 69:1-2 and 14-15 to get a better feel for the imagery here. More from Peterson:
We can face, acknowledge, and live through suffering because “we know it can never be ultimate, it can never constitute the bottom line. God is at the foundation and God is at the boundaries. God seeks the hurt, maimed, wandering, and lost. God woos the rebellious and confused.” Peterson 144
Question: What is currently overwhelming you? In what way are you suffering? Or the people with whom you serve?
The good thing about being overwhelmed—you become real and you don’t have to hide or deny. When we deny pain and suffering, we deny ourselves an encounter with reality. (Idea from Ivan Illich)
Verses 3 and 4 tells us that forgiveness is available. “The fact of forgiveness is not in doubt.” Peterson describes God as the forgiving God:
God is “One who forgives sin, who comes to those who wait and hope for him, who is characterized by steadfast love and plenteous redemption, . . . God makes a difference. God acts positively toward his people. God is not indifferent. He is not rejecting. He is not ambivalent or dilatory. He does not act arbitrarily, in fits and starts. He is not stingy, providing only for bare survival.” Peterson 143
Remember the following:
- No culpability, no sin
- If God kept a record, kept track of? Who could stand? Expected answer–NO ONE!
- The word guard or shamar is also used in v6–what is happening here?
- Now With Yahweh—forgiveness v4
- Fear follows forgiveness—reverence and implied relationship come with true fear of God
Verses 5 and 6 tells us what we are to do: We are to wait!
7 times the Psalmist tells us to wait
- I wait
- My soul waits
- In his word I wait (hope—yachal)
- My soul waits
- watchman (wait) for the morning,
- watchmen (wait) for the morning
Peterson helps us to understand what it means (and does not mean) to wait:
“Hoping does not mean doing nothing. It is not fatalistic resignation. It means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions. It is not compelled to work away with a bogus spirituality. It is the opposite of desperate and panicky manipulations, of scurrying and worrying.” 147
“And hoping is not dreaming. It is not spinning an illusion or fantasy to protect us from our boredom or our pain. It means a confident, alert expectation that God will do what he said he will do. It is imagination put in the harness of faith. It is a willingness to let God do it his way and in his time.” 147
Verses 7 and 8 tells us why we can wait in two simple phrases
- With God—hesed—love, faithfulness, covenant keeping
- With God—abundant redemption—restoration
We wait. . .
He will redeem and restore
He will remove our sin, the guilt of our sin and even the consequences of our sin
Our suffering has boundaries and these boundaries are established by God!
Peterson writes, Psalm 130 does “not exhort us to put up with suffering; it does not explain it or explain it away. It is rather a powerful demonstration that our place in the depths is not out of bounds from God. . . We are persuaded that God’s way with us is redemption and that redemption, not the suffering is ultimate.” 148
What struggles do you need to admit today?
What will waiting on God mean for you today?
- not sending that email or text message?
- keep showing up?
- not responding in kind?
- letting go of something you have been holding onto?
- being quiet and allowing God to show you that he cares, he forgives and that he will redeem your situation. Remember, there are boundaries that he has established. |
I’ve written a lot of posts now trying to explain why Russia sought to purchase the Mistral from France and why I do not believe that the purchase presents a threat to a) Georgia, b) the Baltic states, c) European security, or d) NATO cohesion. Yet various folks keep writing the same old thing regardless of the evidence arrayed against their arguments. The newest entry is Vlad Socor’s latest piece, entitled “France’s Sale of the Mistral to Russia: The Challenge to NATO’s Transatlantic Partners,” which arrived by email today from the Jamestown Foundation. I haven’t found a version online as of yet, but if I find one in the next day or two, I’ll provide a link. (See the update at the bottom of the article for links to most of the content)
Socor argues that despite Russian leaders repeated statements that the ships will be based in the Pacific Fleet, they will actually be placed in the Black Sea and Baltic Fleets, where they will be used to threaten the Baltic states and Georgia as part of a potential simultaneous attack from land and sea.
Furthermore, he argues that these ships are primarily power projection platforms. He believes Admiral Vysotsky’s rhetorical statement that ““In the conflict in August , a ship like that would have allowed the Black Sea Fleet to accomplish its mission in 40 minutes, not 26 hours which is how long it took us [to land the troops ashore].” He goes on to argue that Mistral ships would have allowed the Russian military to open a second front in Georgia in 2008, moving in from the west while the main army attacked from the east.
In the final section, Socor discusses the challenge this deal poses to NATO cohesion. He argues that mercantilist considerations have driven France (as well as other European countries that have recently sold arms to Russia) to trample allied solidarity. In other words, France, Germany and Italy have put the security of their eastern allies at risk for the sake of the profits of their arms manufacturers.
Given that I have already addressed these issues here, and don’t have any new arguments to offer, I thought I would give the floor to someone who has spent the last year studying the Mistral deal and has written what may be the definitive work on the subject.
LCDR Patrick Baker recently completed a Master’s Thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School entitled, “A Study of the Russian Acquisition of the French Mistral Amphibious Assault Warships.” He graciously agreed to respond with his thoughts on Vlad Socor’s article. Please note that his views represent his own personal opinions and not those of the U.S. Navy or the Naval Postgraduate School.
On why Russia sought to buy the Mistral:
As I said in my thesis, I think that the real reason behind the Mistrals is the technologies that Russia can get from France. Specifically the command and control systems, and also, I think as important, are the shipbuilding technologies. As I argued in my thesis, no shipyard in Russia today can build modular warships. And all their shipyards are full of orders now anyway (besides Baltiysky Zavod, which is bankrupt). To modify a shipyard for the Mistral would mean fewer other ships for the Russian navy. As STX Europe is going to build Russia a new shipyard on Kotlin Island, this gives the Admiralty Shipyards a brand new facility to build not only warships but also commercial ships.
A helicopter carrier also allows the Russian Navy to ask for new helicopters to equip its new ships with, providing business for Kamov. Besides the attack helicopters, there has been little in the news about any significant upgrades to the Russian Naval infantry. As of the 2011 Military Balance, Russia has maximum 16 landing craft that could even fit in a Mistral, and only 8 new ones. Moreover, no modern hovercrafts are in development that I have seen.
The Mistral I think is the perfect example of getting a system first, then figuring out the missions for the ships. I think the Russians see the Mistrals as a means to the end (naval modernization), not the end themselves. True the Mistrals can fulfill many roles, including some of the ones Socor talks about, but that was not the driving force behind the sale. If Russia really wanted just the capability, I do not think the contract negotiations would have taken so long (and continue to drag on), specifically on the issues of technology transfer.
On the potential threat posed by these ships to Georgia and the Baltic states:
I do not accept that the Russian failure to open a second front in Georgia was the driving force. As you have pointed out, the Mistralis no faster than Russia’s existing Alligators and Ropuchas, so the ships would not have gotten to Georgia any faster. A better argument would have been a Mistral would have allowed for better close air support from attack helicopters from the coast. Still while a nice benefit from having the ship, but not the main reason for acquiring the ships.
The other part behind the Mistral is about image and prestige. But not against Georgia and the Baltics. People seem to forget that Russia today has 4 Ropuchas sitting in Kaliningrad, which could transport 760 troops and 40 MBT themselves. In the Black Sea, Russia has 3 Alligators and 4 Ropuchas. The Mistral adds to the capability of the Russian Navy, but in terms of troop lift, it is not a game changer. The only new capability, and it is a significant one, is the aviation aspect of the Mistral. But Russia is not without airfields in both Georgia and around the Baltics.
Who I think Russia is worried about is China. That is why the ships have been announced to go to the Pacific first. Not against the Japanese – and yes Socor makes this point, but the Japanese are not the threat – it is just convenient and risk free to blame the Japanese, because Russia knows Japan is not going to invade the Kuril Islands. Rather Russia, in my opinion does not want to appear weak, or abandoning the Pacific to the Chinese. Russia cannot say that it is bulking up its Pacific Fleet against the Chinese publicly though. Putting two large warships is a very visible statement of Russian interest in the Far East. Granted there is little significant naval combat power, but that is not the point. The Mistrals also work well as a forward command post in the Far East, where ground command stations are few and far between. This Russian interest in the Far East is evident in other actions, such as the movement of the Marshal Ustinov from the Northern Fleet to Pacific Fleet after her refit, the Yuri Dolgorukiy to Petropavlosk and if the Admiral Nakimov ever is refurbished, the Russian have announced plans to put her in the Far East.
I think the Russians are more interested in having a LHD style ship that can cruise the globe (without tugs following her) implying that they are still a great power. I also think they want the PR benefit of being able to have a ship to participate in humanitarian operations. I know they have sent rescue teams and assistance in the past, but the image of a Russian ship helping is a powerful one, as the US has seen. Or for evacuation of Russian citizens – being able to evacuated civilians quickly on one ship is important. Look at Libya, the French used the Mistral herself, while the Russia had to hire a ferry and flew jets in to evacuate citizens. What if the airport had been closed?
On how the Mistral’s capabilities might be used:
I think that Socor does make some valid points about how the capabilities of the Mistral could be used. And he is correct, it is something that the US and NATO will have to account for. I just don’t think it was the Russians primary reason, more of a side benefit. If they were so eager for an amphibious capability, why did they not honestly evaluate the other LHDs on the market, ensuring they would get the best package, vice choosing the Mistral from day one? Again, it was because they get the shipbuilding and command and control technologies. In addition, there still remain some serious obstacles. Now that they get the command and control technologies, how do they integrate NATO style systems with Russian ones? How easy will it be to integrate Russian weapon systems with French radar systems? Besides the significant modifications for arctic operations, there are still some sizeable design changes, such as the raising of the hanger deck. It will be interesting to see what the final design is.
My final take is that there was a myriad of reasons the Russians wanted the Mistral. There is no one smoking gun. Technology, command and control and image I think were the top ones, not a desire to kick in the door somewhere. Can they do that…maybe. Nevertheless, a LHD also gives them a ship that is multi-mission, something they will actually use. If they built an anti-carrier destroyer again, it may be a great platform, but realistically, it is not as likely to be employed as much as a LHD is these days. Therefore, there may not be a sinister reason behind the purchase, just a realization of with limited resources, what will actually have the most benefit. In addition, with the Admiral Kuznetsov going into an announced refit until 2017 (if it happens on time) the Russians have really only one capital ship (Peter the Great) to signify nation interest. The Mistrals could give them something to build a task force around. Again this is where image comes into play.
On the impact of the sale on NATO cohesion:
Therefore, will NATO and the US have to pay attention to these ships – yes…can Russia use these ships to intimidate weak smaller nations – yes….was that the Russian primary intention – no. I think the valid point that Socor makes is the issues this type of sale causes within NATO. The lack of trust between countries is something that has to be improved. Perhaps more significant behind the scenes consultations would help (basically so countries aren’t finding out about these things via the newspapers). But the Baltics have to be realistic as well, but the image of France not respecting other allies’ inputs is what has to be overcome.
I’m very much in agreement with LCDR Baker’s analysis. I would just expand briefly on the final point. It seems to me that the key task for countries such as France, Germany and Italy is to work to convince NATO’s eastern members that Russia does not present a military threat to them. Russian leaders could do a great deal to help this effort by changing some of their policies toward the region, and especially their rhetoric — which is frequently much more belligerent than their policies. The best way to improve European security is to increase integration with Russia, not to maintain old dividing lines that do nothing but promote insecurity on both sides.
UPDATE: Still no sight of an electronic version of Vlad Socor’s article, but LCDR Baker pointed out that most of the content was posted in three recent shorter articles that cover the sale, power projection against Georgia, and NATO reactions.
FURTHER UPDATE (July 12): Thanks to the folks at the Jamestown Foundation for providing the link. |
I don’t like the snarky and dismissive tone of David Hart’s recent critique of atheism, but I think that, in his essay, he nevertheless hits his mark here and there. He prefers, for example, the sobriety of Nietzsche to the comfy and confident New Atheists, and says it rather well:
Nietzsche understood how immense the consequences of the rise of Christianity had been, and how immense the consequences of its decline would be as well, and had the intelligence to know he could not fall back on polite moral certitudes to which he no longer had any right. Just as the Christian revolution created a new sensibility by inverting many of the highest values of the pagan past, so the decline of Christianity, Nietzsche knew, portends another, perhaps equally catastrophic shift in moral and cultural consciousness. His famous fable in The Gay Science of the madman who announces God’s death is anything but a hymn of atheist triumphalism. In fact, the madman despairs of the mere atheists—those who merely do not believe—to whom he addresses his terrible proclamation. In their moral contentment, their ease of conscience, he sees an essential oafishness; they do not dread the death of God because they do not grasp that humanity’s heroic and insane act of repudiation has sponged away the horizon, torn down the heavens, left us with only the uncertain resources of our will with which to combat the infinity of meaninglessness that the universe now threatens to become.
Of all the critiques of the New Atheists by theists, I think this Nietzschean line of attack is best. Nietzsche undeniably wrote in a more memorable and nuanced fashion than contemporary atheists, and absorbed the implications of the death of God better than his 21st century counterparts—and David Hart drives home the stark choice Nietzsche highlights (and that most New Atheists seem quite happy to sublimate):
If we are, after all, nothing but the fortuitous effects of physical causes, then the will is bound to no rational measure but itself, and who can imagine what sort of world will spring up from so unprecedented and so vertiginously uncertain a vision of reality?
For Nietzsche, therefore, the future that lies before us must be decided, and decided between only two possible paths: a final nihilism, which aspires to nothing beyond the momentary consolations of material contentment, or some great feat of creative will, inspired by a new and truly worldly mythos powerful enough to replace the old and discredited mythos of the Christian revolution (for him, of course, this meant the myth of the Übermensch).
Perhaps; perhaps not. Where Nietzsche was almost certainly correct, however, was in recognizing that mere formal atheism was not yet the same thing as true unbelief. As he writes in The Gay Science, “Once the Buddha was dead, people displayed his shadow for centuries afterwards in a cave, an immense and dreadful shadow. God is dead: —but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millennia yet where people will display his shadow. And we—we have yet to overcome his shadow!”
In other words, Paul Kurtz’s atheism of sunny humanism and Richard Dawkins’s faith in progress (better living through chemistry) are actually the shadows being cast by dead theistic metaphysics: contemporary atheists as Nietzsche’s last men.
David Hart, as a theist, insists that we are more alone than this (if atheism is true) and enlists Nietzsche as support: what accompanies atheism should be some real fear and trembling.
At least that’s Hart’s argument.
Of course, I think that a lot of contemporary atheists would say that this very argument against atheism is itself an archaic hangover from theism, and that Nietzsche’s intellectual door is the last one to confidently pass through before permanently leaving the realm of dire theistic warning signs: Do not exit! . . . Stop! . . . It’s bad out there! . . . You’ll be sorry!
The sign on the very last door says—Nietzsche warned you!—and was nailed there by worried theists like David Hart.
I’ll grant this: that last sign really is worthy of the thoughtful contemporary person’s pause. But for many atheists, it is the turning back into the religious haunted mansion—reeking, as it does, of irrational incenses, of superstition, and of terrors and horrors all its own—that casts the greater shadow. It’s hard to scare somebody out of taking the atheist journey if the alternative looks equally (or more) ridiculous and repugnant. |
Every now and then there’s a huge spike in traffic to my blog. In one case it was because @cblatts linked to a post of mine. But most of the time it’s not because people are actually looking for me. It’s something even better. They are searching for the term “shotgun shack.”
What’s a shotgun shack? Wikipedia gives this history and definition:
‘The shotgun house is a narrow rectangular domestic residence, usually no more than 12 feet (3.5 m) wide, with doors at each end. It was the most popular style of house in the Southern United States from the end of the American Civil War (1861–65), through the 1920s. Alternate names include shotgun shack, shotgun hut, and shotgun cottage.’
Wikipedia says that the style can be traced from Africa to Haitian influences on home design in New Orleans, but that shotgun shacks are found all over the US. The homes became a symbol of poverty in the mid 1900s.
‘Shotgun houses consist of three to five rooms in a row with no hallways. The term “shotgun house”, which was in use by 1903 but became more common after about 1940, is often said to come from the saying that one could fire a shotgun through the front door and the pellets would fly cleanly through the house and out the back door (since all the doors are on the same side of the house). Another reputed source of the name is that many were built out of crates, e.g. old shotgun-shell crates, and those made for other purposes. However, the name’s origin may actually reflect an African architectural heritage, perhaps being a corruption of a term such as to-gun, which means “place of assembly” in the Southern Dohomey Fon area.‘
Midwestern rocker John Mellencamp’s song Pink Houses alludes to shotgun shacks. It’s a bit on the sarcastic side and makes commentary on rural hardships in the US: “Ain’t that America for you and me, ain’t that America somethin’ to see baby, ain’t that America, home of the free, yeah. Little pink houses for you and me….” And the killer line near the end: “Cause it’s the simple man baby, pays the bills, the thrills, the pills that kill”
The Talking Heads song ‘Once in a Lifetime‘ directly references shotgun shacks and it’s where I took the name for my blog. The song captures a feeling I get often when moving around in the world of aid and development. I’ve found myself waking up in a shotgun shack one morning and then heading to the US to visit my parents in their middle class houses that feel absolutely palatial and luxurious in comparison. Or spending a couple of weeks eating rice and ‘leaves’ and an occasional egg in a rural community but being wined and dined at some donor meeting the following week.
And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself-well…how did I get here?
But people searching for shotgun shack these days are not looking for me or for those songs for the most part.
Nope. They are looking for information on how to build their own shotgun shack either because they are unable to pay for their current home given the economic downturn in the US or they are making a clear decision to downsize, prioritize and live more simply. (Or a smart combination of both).
For example this story: ‘…Debra and her family lived in a nearly 2000 square foot home on an acre and a half of land. Then her husband lost his job and they began to work 4 jobs between them to pay the mortgage, until one day they remembered they had a choice.
Before having their son, Debra and her husband Gary had spent 9 years living in very tiny homes in South America. Living small hadn’t felt like a sacrifice, but a way to stay focused on what is important. They decided they wanted to get back to that.
They stopped working so hard, sold or gave away all of their extra stuff and began looking for the perfect tiny home.’
According to the site, Tiny Living encompasses:
- Tiny Houses
- Life Simplification
- Environmental Consciousness
- Self Sufficiency
- Sound Fiscal Plans
- Social Consciousness |
This three-unit course is a core requirement in all Master's programs within the Hufstedler School of Education. The course is delivered online by Dr. Guisela Chupina during the summer term. Embedded within this summer 2011 delivery is the Cultural Immersion Program in Mexico City. Students enrolled in this course have the option to participate in the Cultural Immersion Program as an enhancement to the course. Course registration is not required to participate in the Cultural Immersion Program. Nonetheless, targeted course learning outcomes, such as development of cross-cultural competencies, are expected on any level of engagement in the program.
The course overview reflects the focus and mission of the Mexico City Cultural Immersion Program: TES 7040 examines the influence of culture and society on educational systems and communities. It focuses on the nature and manifestation of culture, cultural interactions, and diversity in California, the U.S. and other global settings. Students will investigate the values, behaviors, and beliefs of cultural groups and the development of multicultural and cross-cultural communication skills. The course promotes culturally inclusive instruction and provides students with opportunities to develop in-depth knowledge of English as Second Language (ESL) learners’ educational experiences. Students will apply their knowledge of cultural concepts to designing inclusive learning environments, teaching strategies, and curriculum towards implementing culturally responsive teaching.
Candidates enrolled in this course can take advantage of an excellent opportunity to learn through on-ground experience while earning credit toward their Master of Arts in Education (MAE) degree. The course will be delivered to enrollees who are also part of the Cultural Immerson program online for six of the eight weeks, and in Mexico City with Dr. Chupina for the other two weeks. The course follows Alliant's summer calendar, and begins the week of June 4, 2012. Course registrants are expected to participate in the course in its entirety, both online and in Mexico City.
Enrollment in TES 7040 is optional for all program participants. Cost is $1210, which represents the full tuition ($1710 for the three-unit course) and a scholarship of $500 for all course registrants who also attend the Cultural Immersion program.
Individuals who are not current Alliant students but want to take the course may elect to take the course as a non-matriculating student.
A sample course syllabus from 2011 is attached below. This document is subject to change, however, and is not considered final until given directly to course participants. |
"Flip your instruction so that students watch and listen to your lectures (or those of other expert lecturers, including MIT professors and Salman Khan) for homework, and then use your precious class-time for what previously, often, was done in homework: tackling difficult problems, working in groups, researching, collaborating, crafting and creating. Classrooms become laboratories or studios, and yet content delivery is preserved." Jonathan Martin, "The Flipped Classroom Advances: Developments in Reverse Learning and Instruction"
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A Marketing analysis of Italian wine in the Chinese market Findings and discussion Table of Contents 1 Findings and analysis 3 PESTLE analysis 3 SWOT analysis 7 Porter’s five forces analysis 11 Marketing mix 4C analysis 16 Summary of findings 18 Reference List 19 Findings and analysis PESTLE analysis The PESTEL model would help to analyze the macro environment in China in which the liquor and wine industry operates.
Political Political factors play an important role in the performance of businesses in the long run. In China, political risk is relatively low compared to other emerging economies in the world. This is because China follows a one party policy, which reduces chances of political parties among opponents. The central government of China has recently revised its taxation policy in order to help it encourage wine business in the country. The government has taken the initiative to provide funds for the infrastructural projects that would help the wineries in their process of production (Daft, Kendrick and Vershinina, 2010). In case of a political framework, in which there is the existence of more than one party, as the ruling party changes, it leads to the change of ideologies and policies. The one party policy in China acts as a favourable factor for any business operation in the country. Therefore, the wine industry faces positive thrust in China. Import of bottled wine has increased between 2004 and 2009 as shown in the graph below. It can be seen from the figure that imports from Italy have increased considerably after 2006. ...
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Language Disorders in Children CSD 4020 08242015 Distinguish between speech and language 0 Speech l refers to articulation uency voice rate of production coarticulation etc Not the ideas but the way they are produced 0 Language use of conventional symbols words to express thoughts The actual coding of ideas 0 When you collect a quotspeech samplequot what will you be looking for in the child s sample 0 How is that different from a lang sample Expressive vs Receptive Language Receptive language Our understanding of language 0 How could we measure what a child understands about lang Expressive Language Our production of ideas coded into lang o How could this be measured 0 In our clinical work this is the most basic way we can think about a child s language The Speech Chain Model 1 Acoustic level 2 Internal physicalmotor system 3 Linguistic processing Language output Bloom amp Lahey s Model 0 Form grammar syntax morphology phonology structure of Iang Content Vocab semantics meaning of Iang Use pragmatics social communication how Iang is used within social contexts Internal evidence provided by an individual client s perspective and beliefs and an SLP s clinical expertise External evidence consists of welldesigned and controlled experimental studies that result in experimental data by analyzing study results a practitioner can determine whether a particular clinical practice is effective Theories of language deve0pment 826 Why should SLPs care about theory 0 To differentiate from what s normal to abnormal o Theories ultimately have clinical implications 0 Some important practical considerations 0 Differentiating disordered from typical development 0 Theory as to causes will inform treatment decisions 0 Most intervention approaches are based on theory 0 Remember no single theory explains everything Nature vs nurture 0 Two extreme positions 0 Universal grammar Chomsky O Radical behaviorism Skinner The middle ground 0 Most modern theories include a role for both nature and nurture What does behavioral genetics tell us 0 00000 Young children twin studies show estimated heritability of about 24 for language skill Middle childhood heritability rises to 57 Heritability may be lower in extreme environments Heritability may be higher for lang disorders What accounts for the rest Shared and unique environment Gene environment correlation When we choose environments based on our individuality Behaviorism key terms Reinforcement consequences that lead to increase in a behavior 0 0 Positive R providing a reward Negative R taking away something undesirable Can be social material activityrelated o Shaping closing in on a target behavior 0 Learner must become increasingly accurate in order to earn a reward Punishment consequences that lead to decreases in a behavior Antecedent the stimulus that precedes a behavior 0 Language antecedents Extinction behaviors that are not reinforced will gradually disappear o Fixed and variable schedules Chaining teaching a complex behavior by breaking it down into separate steps 0 Each step in the sequence is reinforced until it becomes novel DrillandPractice o Antecedents are provided and desirable responses are reinforced o Shaping and chaining Focus on observable measurable behaviors 0 Aids in clear documentation and progress monitoring Simple to understand and apply 0 Does not require sophisticated grasp of hypothetical constructs o Requires consistency Limitations Constructivism summary Based on writings of Piaget Cognitive development proceeds in a series of stages Both nature and nurture o Inborn mental processes support Iang development 0 Lang itself is not innate Children actively construct their knowledge of the world 0 Natural curiosity and exploration drive to understand 0 Links between motor ability play and language Constructivism key terms 0 Schema 0 Concept or mental category formed as child interacts w the world Assimilation 0 New info is added to an existing schema errors can occur 0 Accommodation 0 Schema is adjusted to account for new info 0 Equilibrium 0 Child seeks balance between assimilation and accommodation Symbolic play 0 Child uses an object to stand for something else 0 Object permanence o Objects continue to exist even when they can no longer be seen 0 Object constancy 0 An object remains the same regardless of conditions seeing something fro different directions light vs dark out Meansend 0 Beginning of intent planning problem solving Piaget s cognitive stages Sensorimotor 0 Birth 2 years 0 Child experiences world through the senses Preoperational o 27 years 0 magical thinking rapid ang development concrete operations 0 711 years 0 ogica reasoning in the hereandnow formal operations 0 12 years adult 0 beginning of abstract thinking Clinical Applications 0 Understanding the cognitive basis of ang development o Is the child ready Qualitative change over time 0 Understanding the role of active exploration 0 Child as active agent in constructing knowledge Observational play 0 Does the child exhibit representational thought 0 Limitation development not usually so linear 0 Child may be in several stages at once Social lnteractionist theory summary 0 Based originally on work of Vygotsky Social interaction through lang supports cog Development Lang development does not occur in a vacuum 0 Adultchild interaction is key to early lang development SIT terms 0 Zone of proximal development 0 What the learner can accomplish with adult support 0 Maximizes learning Infantdirected talk 0 Thought to help infants make connections Coordinating attention 0 Caregivers follow child s attention focus 0 Adults direct child s attention Scaffolding 0 Adult support for learning a challenging task gradually faded Mediation 0 Teaching quothot to learnquot learner accepts responsibility Parentchild routines o Structured predictable communication child takes active role SIT clinical implications 0 Large impact on educational theory and practice 0 Both regular and special education SLP Parents an integral part or treatment 0 Emphasis on communication across many settings 0 Limitation does not fully explain lang development 0 Based heavily on Western middleclass childrearing practices Emergentist theory summary 0 Relatively new theory 0 Views naturenurture debate as irrelevant 0 Biology interacts w environment to produce learning 0 Data driven approach 0 Learning principles emerge from child s own experience w lang 0 Developmental sequence 0 The whole is greater than the sum of it s parts Assumptions of emergentist coalition model 0 Children choose from multiple cues that are available 0 Importance of given type of cue will change w development 0 Through experience children construct principles of word learning Cues children use 0 quotDumb attention mechanismsquot 0 perceptual salience association frequency Constraintsprinciples 0 Mutual exclusivity whole object taxonomic assumption Socialpragmatic cues 0 Eye gaze pointing child seeks out speaker s intent Linguistic cues o Syntax prosody o Emergentist theory clinical implications 0 Focus on inconsistencies Target emerging features Narrow target leads to broad changes Intervention approaches 0 Lang recasting o Focused stimulation 831 Cognitive Bases of Language Thought in uences language egocentric speech Piaget Egocentric speech 0 Produced in the presence of others quotcommunal monologuequot 0 Not directed toward others or understood by others 0 After age 3 use of egocentric speech decreases Theory of mind and language 0 ToM understanding that others have mental states thoughts feelings etc that may differ from one s own 0 Develops gradually beginning in 1st year of life Lessdeveloped theory of mind can limit lang development 0 Autism an extreme example Lang also promotes theory of mind understanding 0 How often child hears talk about mental states 0 Conclusion lang and ToM develop in tandem o Mutually reinforcing Languagein uencesthoughtinnerspeech Vygotsky again 0 Like piaget notices decrease in egocentric speech ages 37 0 Why According to Vygotsky bc egocentric speech becomes internalized as quotinner speechquot 0 Different functions of overt and inner speech 0 When talking to others thoughts turn into words 0 When talking to oneself words turn into thoughts 0 Inner speech and cognitive performance 0 quotPrivate speechquot semiaudible inner speech 0 children who engage in more private speech show 0 greater cognitive exibility 0 better complex planning ability articulatory suppression impairs performance on cognitive tasks 0 by preventing private or inner speech 0 Greater vocab is associated with better performance on cognitive tasks 0 Direction of effect Bilingualism and executive functioning 0 Executive function EF higherorder cognitive skills 0 Working memory inhibitory control mental set shifting o Bilingual children and adults often have superior EF skills 0 Daily experience with inhibiting one language in favor of the other 0 Frequent shifting between languages 0 EF skills also support L2 learning 0 Firstlanguage learning too 0 Bottom line 0 More evidence that language and cognitive skills are mutually supportive Cognitive processes and language 0 Attention o Orienting focusing on topic sustained keep focusing on topic selective screening out outside stimulus Speed of processing 0 Speech is an extremely speedy input 0 Phonological working memory 0 Key de cit in Speechlanguage impairment SLI phonological loop info is being stored while processed Serial order memory 0 May be as important as capacity Not just found in language Ex how many items someone can name back in order 0 Dual tasking divided attention 0 An idea of resource sharing Multitasking being able to complete two things at once Background knowledge 0 New concepts and vocab quothook ontoquot prior knowledge Integration of newlylearned words 0 Semantic priming of novel but related words Learning words from stories in uence of SES 0 For stories relying heavily on background knowledge children of lowSES families were at a disadvantage o For stories with completely novel background details lowand middleSES children performed more similarly Metacognition quotThinking about thinkingquot preparation planning to learn 0 setting clear and realistic goals choosing and using learning strategies monitoring 0 ongoing are strategies working Orchestrating strategies 0 Selecting strategies that work well together Evaluating 0 Were all of the steps effective For these stages kids would have to be in the formal operations stage of cognition around age 12 A higherorder factor quotCorrelation does not imply causationquot cognition and language may both be in uenced by a more general ability aka quotgquot o quotgquot is associated with both verbal and nonverbal ability evidence verbal and nonverbal cognition tend to be related within individuals 0 grow more highly correlated with development 0 twin studies show large genetic overlap o SLI and Autism Spectrum Disorder ASD exceptions o Maturation affects both language and nonverbal cognition Models of Language Disorders 1 Categorical model 0 Based on medical model Classi es lang disorders on basis of syndrome ex SLI Down s HI Assumptions Potential problems 0 This model is based on labels It shows these labels will highlight potential problems kids with speci c label disorders have But these can oversimplify disorders 2 Speci c Disabilities model 0 Based on the idea that the language disorder is caused by a separate area of weakness Remediation should be based on helping strengthen that other area By strengthening the other area language dif culties will improve 0 Ex fast forward focusing on speech rather than language to improve an issue in language 0 Potential problems 0 Initial weakness is not being addressed 3 Systems model 0 The language disorder exists within the context of the interaction between the person and hisher environment 0 Ex brother and sister are always there to help when child is quotmessing upquot Siblings won t always be there 0 The context in which we use and learn language is important 4 DescriptiveDevelopmental model 0 States describing the individual s strengths and weaknesses is essential States that our knowledge or normal language development is the best source for guiding language treatment 0 Earlier developing skills should be targeted before later developing skills Emphasizing the child s actual language behavior Describing the language behavior leads very naturally into goal writing later 0 There are some disorders that do not follow speci c developmental steps This would not be the model for them Distinguishing Language Differences from Disorders Terminology Ethnic droup a group of individuals who share a common language heritage religion or geographynationality Not race 0 1 in 5 ethnic groups in America EuroAmerican AfricanAmerican LatinoAmerican AsianAmerican NativeAmerican Cultural Sensitivity a basic respect for other ethnic groups Believe all cultures are equal Acculturation 0 Integration a family want to maintain their own culture while adopting EuropeanAmerican EA culture 0 Assimilation A family want to adopt the EA and let go of their own culture 0 Separation want to maintain own culture and does not want to adopt the EA culture 0 Marginalization not able to maintain own culture or adopt EA culture 0 Heritage consistencv the degree to which a person s lifestyle matches a persons culture 0 Doing this might lead to snap judgments o lndividualist vs Collectivist culture 0 CC other children grandparents etc may help out more with child s care 0 Timeliness o Personal way of dealing Language Assessment of Children of Different Dialect Groups Dialects are not just accents Two speakers of different dialects typically can understand each other whereas two speakers of different language cannot 0 Critical issue Language assessments must measure language abilities regardless of a person s dialect 0 Assessment must be nonbiased Steps in a Nonbiased Assessment 0 Identify the dialect Determine look up the characteristics of the dialect 0 Ask whether the tests that you re using have norms for that dialect group 0 When possible best not to abandon normreference testing altogether o Administer normreference testing if possible Administer more descriptive measures 0 Descriptive Measures of Language 0 Language sample 0 Dynamic Assessment testteachretest 0 Why is DA so helpful Observational procedures 0 Assessment of Children who are Bilingual or monolingual speakers of other languages 0 If child s dominant language is not English and we do not speak the dominant language there are two options 0 Refer to an SLP who can administer a language assessment in the child s dominant language 0 Hire a trained interpreter to conduct the assessment Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2004 0 Use of Interpreters Should not be family members Have some training in speech amp language development and in working with children and families Familiar with language and development of that language Cultural informant Structure of Assessment Determine dominant language May choose standardized measures DELV but do so with caution eliminate potentially biased items and do not use norms Dynamic assessment Language probes individualized to child Observation of child with peers who speak hisher dominant language Parentfamily interview 0 Interpreting Results Interpretations are descriptive usually without test scored Common to see some language delay in bilingual children
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The state is bringing back to life a program aimed at protecting the state’s farmland, having secured $20.5 million in funding for the initiative, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced earlier this month.
To help plan for the future of agriculture, the Farmland Protection Program will provide county and municipal governments — and for the first time, soil and water conservation districts and not-for-profit conservation organizations (like the Peconic Land Trust) — funding to help purchase development rights on farmland, ensuring they stay in agriculture.
In 2008, funding for the program, which is made available through the state Environmental Protection Fund and administered by the state Department of Agriculture and Markets, was cut by more than 50 percent.
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Grants have not been offered for the past five years, said Melissa Spiro, land preservation coordinator for Southold Town.
“This is very important,” Ms. Spiro said. “They partially fund projects, so we put in some money, they put in some money, and we end up having a protected parcel [of farmland].”
Between 1998 and 2008, from which data was readily available, the town received over $7 million in grants through the program, helping it to preserve about 470 acres, she said.
Riverhead Town Supervisor Sean Walter said the funding comes at the perfect time, as the town as exhausted it available CPF funds — making this grant program one of the few options the town has at protecting farmland.
“I am very happy to hear it, it is surely needed,” he said. “Hopefully the town will be able to apply for these grants.”
With no available funding to pay for remaining costs — because the allowable state contribution is a maximum of 87.5 percent of the total — he said the town could potentially seek funding sources from the county.
The grant program has also been streamlined, cutting back on the documents required and creating milestones to ensure projects reach completion under “a more practical timeframe,” according to the release.
“In previous contracts, the average length of time between grant application and landowner payment was far too lengthy to build predictability into the process,” the release reads.
Ms. Spiro said the town’s most recent project perfectly displays limitations of the prior process. |
Translated by Caroline Fraser and Claudia Woll, Peru and Margarita Troetsch, Panama
Music Reading Worskshop in Santiago, Chile; January 3-6, 2005
By Blancamaria Montecinos, President, Suzuki Association of Chile
We invited Caroline Fraser to teach. We had been missing her, as we had not been able to offer courses since 2000. The workshop was a success for both teachers and students. The children had a great time. It was fun for them and so natural that they wanted to continue finding out what else they could read in such an easy way. It was very useful for us to see in practice how children can learn music reading through their senses, and it gave us ideas for games and other ways of approaching theory. Additionally, for teachers with no previous knowledge of the Suzuki method, it was a way of opening the door for them. They always ask, “And when do you teach reading?” Here it was clear to us that you can start at the first lesson. The interesting part is the “how.” Incorporating some of Caroline’s ideas, we are now motivated to study and research further other methodologies such as Kodaly and Dalcroze.
The workshop achieved two important objectives: to motivate the Suzuki teachers to continue their training and to attract new teachers, understanding that it is the Mother Tongue Approach, and that music reading can be taught in the same way as language literacy. Congratulations to Caroline who left us so motivated!
From Canada in the North to Patagonia in the South … they traveled to Peru
Edited by Roberta Centurion, International Representative, Suzuki Association of Peru
The Twentieth Suzuki International Festival and Latin American Teachers’ Conference created a miniature world of Suzuki for two weeks, and it was our privilege to be a part of it. To witness the joy of teachers coming together from across the continent to share their experiences and to gain strength and learn from each other would have made Dr. Suzuki very happy, indeed. Our thanks and congratulations go to the Suzuki Association of Peru for hosting this model event and for their tireless efforts in bringing it about with such excellence.—William and Doris Preucil
This year a record number of North Americans traveled to take teacher training courses in Peru. Robin Erickson, Palo Alto, California writes:
I had a wonderful experience at the 20th Festival in Peru on many counts. Pedagogically, I felt favored by the gift of Doris Preucil’s first-rate wealth of knowledge and experience, and gentle generosity—of time, energy, and most of all, interest. Musically, I enjoyed my first live Argentine Tango rehearsal, a fantastic presentation of Peruvian music, a back-yard all-night jam session/talent show and, of course, the forever heartwarming Suzuki play-ins and recitals.
Culturally, I got more than I ever would have expected. The Suzuki / Talent Education Method seemed to have a special life force in South America that had become lost to me here in the States. I found my colleagues’ deeply sincere enthusiasm for the method and their students, and their dedication to a path much less traveled very moving. Socially, I feel like I made a wealth of fast friends, in spite of the language barrier. I have always said that Music is a Language, but never before had the chance to use my violin to communicate and forge a sense of immediate community. I left feeling so inspired to become involved in the efforts of Marilyn, Caroline, Roberta, all the US/Canada Teacher Trainers, and all of the Latin American Suzuki teachers—who are reaching out to enlarge our community and strengthen Dr. Suzuki’s beautiful vision. I hope that many more North Americans, teachers and families alike, will be drawn to head south for an Institute experience of a lifetime! |
The more of our lives that we put online, the less privacy we have. It is as simple as that. And this is a problem that will just get worse over time. You cannot be fully engaged on social networks, blogs, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, FriendFeed, and all the rest without opening yourself up to phishers, scammers, and identity thieves. Something to think about since today is Data Privacy Day.
I spoke with Peter Cullen, Microsoft’s chief privacy strategist, about some of these issues. People are perhaps more freewheeling than they should be with their private information online, and corporations entrusted with our private data are not fully equipped to protect it. As Cullen put it:
Information is not just a currency of value, but a currency of crime.
That is something we should all be more aware of as we go about broadcasting every meal, plane ride, and bowel movement to our “friends” on the Web. Microsoft recently conducted some focus group research to find out consumer’s attitude toward privacy. He was surprised to find common attitudes toward privacy across different age groups and demographics. In general, people realize they are trading privacy for the value of being connected. Cullen summarized the findings for me.
- Sense of resignation. Once their data is online, they know that it is gone. They say, “I need to have this value, but I’m not sure my risks are being covered.”
- Calming Placebo Effect. All the subjects are employing some technology like anti-virus or deleting cookies, but they are not comfortable these are the right tools. It is like: “I’ll take this pill. I am not sure if it is helping me, but I am just going to close my eyes and feel better.”
- Concept of shared responsibility. They held themselves responsible for their own information. But there was a lack of understanding about how their information is being used.
In the end, consumers can only do so much to protect their privacy: use strong passwords with a combination of letters and numbers; never share personal information such as credit card or Social Security numbers online, and be careful with whom you share your name, address, age, or gender; make sure all on;line transaction are encrypted; look for sites with privacy certificates such as TRUSTe before giving up any personal data.
However, Cullen cautioned against attempts to put too much responsibility on consumers to protect their own data. The companies that store and manipulate the data need to act more like stewards and less like open vaults.
To learn more about data privacy, here are a few starting points. Or you can go to Data Privacy Day events being held around the world today (Microsoft is hosting one at the San Francisco Public Library that is open to the public).
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From GENE LOGSDON
One of my favorite winter pastimes is scouting for the very earliest sign of new plant life as the days begin to lengthen. From other years, I had decided that winter aconites and snowdrops were the champions of the game called First Growth. Especially this year, these flowers bloomed on January 13th, unusual for northern Ohio. But the conditions were right: a rather mild early December and then six inches of snow on top of unfrozen ground. Then came a January thaw and the temperature got up into the 50s, even into the 60s. The snow melted and voila! The protected yard next to the house suddenly came alive with yellow and white splashes of these two flowers. They were very cagey, however. They did not open the whole way, and so they might be able to withstand considerable cold weather sure to come again.
But, as gratifying as it was to see these early bloomers earlier than ever, they did not win this year’s championship game of New Growth. On the north side of the machinery shed, I was clearing away brush and small trees in December when I noticed lumps of moss in the building’s shade under the brushy growth, dark green from fall growth. But then suddenly in the first days of January, the dark green was suddenly overlain by light green new growth. (You can see it in the photo above. That rounded mound of moss is about a foot in diameter.) On close inspection, there were tiny reddish brown stemmy threads sticking above the new green.
This moss is common here, but I don’t know enough to identify it for sure. As I tried, Google introduced me to a sector of wild nature that is wondrously new for me. I’ve always been aware of mosses growing bright green in winter, but just sort of took them for granted. They are so beautiful that, from what I read, there is danger that they are being over-harvested in some areas for landscaping purposes.
There are other candidates for champion New Growth status. Chickweed of course, but I don’t count that because in my experience it never stops growing. The drought last summer hurt it but when rains came again in the Fall, the stuff went berserk. It is overrunning many winter fields where grain was grown last year. Livestock would gladly graze it if there were fences around these fields. With proper management, chickweed might become a great winter pasture or cover crop on cultivated ground. It won’t compete with permanent pasture sod.
Bluegrass also stayed quite green this winter and my sheep are grazing it in mid-January, a first for me. The chickens seek it out avidly as the snow melts and I am sure they are getting as much nutrition from it as from grains.
Is this all the result of global warming? Since the weather is cold again this week, I rather think it was just a typical January thaw that came along a little earlier than usual to give us a break in the cold of bleak midwinter. I love January thaws, love to hear the weather forecaster say “the temperature will be rising in the night.” And if global warming is the cause, I can think of worse things. Like global cooling. |
There are a few things to keep in mind when filing your personal taxes with multiple W-2 tax forms. Watch this video to learn what you need to do to file a tax return with multiple jobs.
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Quantifying Structural Changes with the Application of Osteopathic Manual Medicine (OMM) in Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Hardee, Abraham Billy
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The primary purpose of this research was to compare quantifiable structural asymmetry to changes visualized in center of pressure (CoP) and/or postural sway by the use of an Isobalance forceplate in order to introduce principles of osteopathic medicine to a Latin America culture. Osteopathic manual medicine (OMM) was used to correct structural dysfunction found in the study participants at the Baxter Institute in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Study participants were students and staff members ranging in age from 18 to 35 and consisting of 24 males and two females. The examination period lasted a total of five weeks. During weeks one, three, and five, baseline measurements were taken prior to manipulation using .05 alpha to test significance. Measurements were repeated post OMM. An educational video was provided during each session. Pretest and posttest results demonstrated an improvement in understanding of OMM materials provided to participants. A bivariable chi-square test found that, when manipulated, those with sacrum dysfunction have an association with a positive improvement in postural sway (TIC 1 & 2) (p<.05). Also, the multivariable logistic regression model found that individuals who had no initial change in postural sway (TIC 1 & 2) were more likely to move to a positive improvement of time in the center of the premeasured diameter calculated by the Isobalance forceplate, than a decrease in time spent in the center (i.e. negative improvement) throughout the time of the study (p<.05).
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Located on idyllic islands and picturesque mountains, these hotels and resorts once hosted vacationing tourists. Now they lay in decaying ruins, as nature overtakes their now-empty luxury suites, grand ballrooms and swimming pools. Neglected for years and sometimes, decades, these hotels' crumbling structures were vulnerable to the elements. View the slideshow above to take a tour of hotels and resorts where no one will check in again.
1. Grossinger's Catskill Resort - New York
Grossinger's Catskill Resort was said to have been the inspiration for the setting of the film "Dirty Dancing," but the waltzes here have long been over. There's nothing but eerie silence now in this hotel, which once welcomed 150,000 visitors annually and was abandoned in 1986, according to Business Insider. The hotel, part of the so-called "Borscht Belt" location of summer resorts in the Catskill Mountains, was famed for being the first place to use artificial snow for skiers in 1952, the Daily Mail reported. The 1200-acre site had its own airstrip, ballrooms, auditoriums and sports grounds, hosting comedians and sporting champions and putting on nightly entertainment.
2. The Grand Hotel - Kupari, Croatia
Located in Croatia's Dubrovnik Riviera, the village of Kupari was once an idyllic summer getaway for the high-ranking military officers of the Yugoslav People's Army. Today, the tourist complex lay in ruins, shell-scarred from attacks during the Croatian War of Independence in the early 1990s. One of the massive hotels, the Grand Hotel, was built in 1920, according to the Zupa Duborvocka Tourist Board. It housed 139 beds and featured an indoor swimming pool, and luxurious rooms with stunning ocean views. Photographer Ben Fredericson captured the images of the ruins of the hotel, now covered in graffiti and crumbling in disrepair, in the slideshow above.
3. Hotel Belvédère du Rayon Vert - Cerbère, France
Designed in the art deco style by the Perpignan architect, Léon Baille, and built between 1928 and 1932, the Hotel Belvédère du Rayon Vert in the French Mediterranean stands out from its surroundings with its imposing and luxurious ship-like appearance. Closed during the Spanish Civil War, the hotel has never regained its former glory, according to the Telegraph.
The hotel, which featured a tennis court, ballrooms, theater and restaurant on its roof, was abandoned in 1983 and became a protected site under the list of historic monuments in 1987, according to the French Ministry of Culture.
4. "The White Pines" - Poconos Mountains, Pennsylvania
Photographer John Walker captured haunting images of an abandoned resort, located on 750 acres of land at the base of the Pocono Mountains in Pa., after a fellow urban explorer disclosed the location. In order to keep it protected, Walker doesn’t use the resort’s real name. He instead refers to it as "The White Pines."
The resort was formerly a summer haven for garment workers in the early 1900s, according to Abandoned NY. It featured a lake, a theater, a library and an abundance of activities to keep guests entertained. Now, the front desk, bar and theater at the resort all lie crumbling and derelict. "The theater and main building interested me the most," Walker told Weather.com. "Just seeing what time and Mother Nature has does to the location since it closed always makes it exciting to see and capture with a camera."
5. Polissya Hotel - Pripyat, Ukraine
Once the home of 50,000 people, Pripyat was evacuated on April 26, 1986 after an explosion at Chernobyl nuclear power plant caused a radiation leak. Pripyat shows no visible effects of the nuclear disaster, but the decaying city is still eerie. Tourists head to the ghost town every year to witness the crumbling buildings, including the Polissya hotel, one of the city's tallest buildings, built in the mid-1970s to house delegations and guests visiting the Chernobyl Power Plant, according to Pripyat.com.
According to NBC, tourists have to be tested for radiation after visiting the sites of Pripyat, although levels are low enough to be harmless in most areas of the city.
6. Sanzhi UFO Houses - Taiwan
The UFO houses of Sanzhi, named for their odd shape, were abandoned just a few years after their construction. The owner went bankrupt before completing the houses, which were meant to be a tourist destination and vacation resort on the coast.
There are also rumors that the construction came to a halt because thousands of skeletons were found at the site, and that it was the scene of several murders, reported the Taipei Times. Although these rumors were never substantiated, the eerie, empty buildings became popular with tourists and photographers, such as the Taiwanese photographer Cypherone. But the Taipei County Government demolished the site in 2008 and 2009 in order to use the site for a new development project, laying to rest all of the ghost stories, said the Taipei Times.
7. Ryugyong Hotel - Pyongyang, North Korea
A 105-story pyramid-shaped skyscraper in Pyongyang, North Korea, the Ryugyong Hotel reaches a height of 1,080 feet, making it the most prominent feature of the city's skyline. Construction for the hotel actually began in 1987, and was scheduled to be completed by 1989. But the 1989 completion was delayed, reportedly due to construction method and material problems, and then delayed again in 1992 because of funding issues, according to CNN. The project ground to a halt completely in 1993. One critic called it the "worst building in the world," according to the Telegraph.
8. Unfinished Hotel Complex - Cala d'en Serra, Ibiza, Spain
Located on the beach of Cala d'en Serra in the Spanish island of Ibiza, the abandoned, half-finished hotel complex by renowned Catalan architect Josep Lluís Sert, show no signs of the nightlife or party atmosphere that the rest of the island is known for. The project, which started in 1969, was put on hold in the 1970s and abandoned completely after Sert's death in 1983 according to the Ibiza blog IbizaPhoto.
There have been debates over the years about what should be done to the unfinished hotel complex. Many islanders consider the structure an eyesore, while others see the project as an important piece of cultural heritage, since Sert is now considered one of Catalonia's most important architects. In 2000 plans were drawn up to complete the complex in the style intended by Sert, for use as an exclusive tourist attraction and Thalassotherapy centre. These plans were also eventually abandoned, mainly due to the downturn in the island tourist economy.
9. Courbefy Hotel - Courbefy, France
In 2012, Courbefy in central France made news when the entire village was successfully auctioned off for 520,000 euros (around $663,000 at the time) to a Korean-American photographer.
The village, which included around 21 buildings and the ruins of a 13th century castle, has been a ghost town since villagers began moving out in the 1970s, according to the Guardian. In the 1990s there was an attempt to turn Courbefy into a hotel and restaurant complex, but the plan was eventually abandoned in 2008 and since then the village has been left to nature and, according to Le Figaro, abandoned to thieves and squatters.
10. Lake Mead Lodge - Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada
Opened in 1941, Lake Mead Lodge (originally Hualapai Lodge) played a key role in the development of recreation and tourism at Lake Mead National Recreation Area and Southern Nevada. The Lodge was the first hotel on Lake Mead, according to the National Park Service. The moving of the Lake Mead Marina in 2008, however, isolated Lake Mead Lodge from their marina visitors and the number of overnight guests staying at the Lodge dropped considerably. It was closed in 2009.
11. Maya Hotel - Japan
Perhaps the most popular "haikyo" (abandoned place) spot in Japan, the Mt. Maya Hotel was built in 1929, and housed anti-aircraft guns on the roof and suffered damage during World War II, according to Forbes. It was rebuilt in the 1960s but damaged again, this time by natural disasters, including a typhoon and resulting mudslides in 1967. After reopening as a student center, it was finally closed in 1995.
12. Unnamed Hotel - Cap Skirring, Senegal
With its white beaches and mangrove forests, Cap Skirring in Senegal's Atlantic Coast would make a perfect summer getaway. But armed conflict in the 1990s between the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) rebels and the Senegalese army negatively affected tourism in the area, according to IRIN Africa. This has led to several hotels closing their doors.
However, since peace has been restored following an accord between the MFDC and the Senegalese government in 2004, tourism is still having difficulties recovering from years of conflict. In 2008, Senegal's tourism minister national tourism minister said government will give loans to hotel-owners who were forced to close their establishments when violence caused tourists to flee, and have not been able to reopen them, reported IRIN Africa.
13. Abandoned Hotels of Bad Gastein, Austria
Known for its spas, thermal waters and a picturesque waterfall, the resort town of Bad Gastein in the Austrian Alps was once a booming alpine getaway, situated in a high valley of the Hohe Tauern mountain range. Most visitors would stay in one of the several Belle Epoque hotel buildings that dotted the steep slopes of the area. Many of these hotels, however, are now abandoned—the ghostly remains and reminders of a once-glamorous village. The town hopes to experience a revival with ther recent openings onf newer, boutique-style hotels.
This article was originally published February 19, 2014 and updated on February 23, 2016. |
This page coordinates the Google "Summer of Code" projects involving Python and mentored by the Python Software Foundation (PSF).
Based on previous years, we are expecting a lot of competition so when making your application it is important to note that the PSF is looking for projects that:
- enhance an existing Python project rather than start something complete from scratch;
- contribute to the Python community rather than are merely written in Python.
The 2007 PSF SoC coordinator is JamesTauber (jtauber at jtauber dot com). Contact him if you have any questions.
Students: How to submit a proposal
Student applications are now open.
Looking at the list of PSF SummerOfCode/Mentors can help you craft your proposal to match their interests.
Tips on participating
- Do not overbook yourself. Working on your project should be your main activity for the entire summer.
- You must provide weekly status reports.
- Participate in the developer community by joining python-dev, jython-dev, or whatever mailing list is appropriate.
- If you get stuck, ask for help instead of silently struggling. You can ask your mentor for help, or post a question to the development mailing list.
- You will be expected to learn how to use SVN.
Mentors: How to apply
The mentor's responsibility is to ensure the student makes progress. This could entail coaching them, providing motivation, making sure they aren't stuck, answering technical questions, or pointing the student to the proper resources.
Mentors should expect to get a weekly status report from their students, and should badger students who are not communicating. The weekly status should be reported to the PSF SoC coordinator.
However, the mentor is not expected to do work for the student.
Mentoring duties are expected to take a couple of hours per week.
If you are interested in becoming a mentor:
For 2007, the PSF would like to concentrate on proposals that advance PSF projects (CPython and its documentation, Jython and its documentation, the Python web site). That said, projects relating to other Python libraries, applications or implementations (PyPy) that are relevant to the promotion of the Python programming language are also encouraged.
The following pages list some ideas:
CodingProjectIdeas/PythonCore -- ideas for the CPython interpreter.
http://wiki.python.org/jython/SummerOfCode -- Jython projects.
http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/project-ideas.html -- Some ideas for PyPy
http://code.google.com/p/pyjamas/wiki/SummerOfCode -- Idea for Pyjamas
http://webpy.infogami.com/ideas -- ideas for web.py
http://code.google.com/p/crunchy/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas -- ideas for Crunchy (educational software).
See also SummerOfCode/Mentors where potential mentors have mentioned projects they are willing to mentor.
Other Organizations using Python
If you can't find a well-suited PSF project, but you still want to do something with Python for SOC 2007, you can also consider the projects offered by:
Open Source Applications Foundation (http://code.google.com/soc/osaf/about.html)
Plone Foundation (http://code.google.com/soc/plone/about.html)
The Space Telescope Science Institute (http://code.google.com/soc/stsci/about.html)
Zope Foundation (http://code.google.com/soc/zope/about.html)
All the mentoring organizations are listed here: http://code.google.com/soc/ |
U.S. Marines Clear Motubu Penninsula after Heavy Fighting
The main landing was made by XXIV Corps and III Amphibious Corps on the Hagushi beaches on the western coast of Okinawa on L-Day, April 1, which was both Easter Sunday and April Fools' Day in 1945.
The 2nd Marine Division conducted a demonstration off the Minatoga beaches on the southeastern coast to confuse the Japanese about American intentions and delay movement of reserves from there.
Tenth Army swept across the south-central part of the island with relative ease by World War II standards, capturing the Kadena and the Yomitan airbases. In light of the weak opposition, General Buckner decided to proceed immediately with Phase II of his plan—the seizure of northern Okinawa. The 6th Marine Division headed up the Ishikawa Isthmus. The land was mountainous and wooded, with the Japanese defenses concentrated on Yae-Take, a twisted mass of rocky ridges and ravines on the Motobu Peninsula. There was heavy fighting before the Marines finally cleared the peninsula on April 18.
Meanwhile, the 77th Infantry Division assaulted Ie Shima, a small island off the western end of the peninsula, on April 16. In addition to conventional hazards, the 77th Infantry Division encountered suicide bombers, and even Japanese women armed with spears. There was heavy fighting before Ie Shima was declared secured on April 21 and became another air base for operations against Japan.
By 19 April soldiers and marines of the US Tenth Army under LGEN Buckner USA were engaged in a fierce battle along a fortified front which represented the outer ring of the Shuri Line. This fighting contrasted dramatically with the unopposed landings and initial rapid advances of the previous weeks. The Shuri defenses were deeply dug into the limestone cliffs and boasted mutually supporting positions as well as a wealth of artillery of various calibers. As the battle dragged on, American casualties mounted. This delay in securing the island caused great consternation among the naval commanders since the fleet of almost 1,600 ships was exposed to heavy enemy air attacks. The most damage from the Japanese attacks came from operation Ten-Go (Heavenly Operation) which employed mass deployment of the fearsome kamikaze. |
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This work explores various avenues of planning, organizing and controlling the physical supply/distribution of products and services in both manufacturing and service firms. It illustrates how to set the level of inventory, order processing and purchasing to make products and services available in the most cost-effective manner.
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The LOGWARE software found inside
LOGWARE is designed to be user-friendly for data input, preparation, and results presentation so that it will be an integral part of a student's decision-making tool kit.
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Riassunto: Sandra Blow (b. 1925) is one of the most important British artists of the last 50 years. During this time of rapid change in the art world, her commitment to abstract painting has resulted in a large and diverse body of work of distinctive power and subtlety. Despite her high reputation, little has previously been published about Blow. This is the first full-length study of her life and art. Lavishly illustrated throughout, it provides the first fully representative selection of works spanning all stages of her career. Michael Bird has worked in close collaboration with the artist and has drawn on a wealth of unpublished material. He explores the crucial importance of abstraction to Blow, and looks in depth at her relationship to other artists including Alberto Burri and Roger Hilton. He also places Blow's work in the context of British and international art movements of the post-war period and late twentieth century. Through close attention to Blow's studio practice, this book provides wide-ranging insights into her creative process. It reveals the intensity of emotional engagement and technical experimentation that lie behind the apparent spontaneity of her vivid handling of materials, colour and form.
L'autore: Michael Bird is a freelance writer and editor based in St Ives, Cornwall, UK.
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Descrizione libro Lund Humphries, Aldershot, 2005. Hard Cover. Condizione libro: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 172 pp. 120 illustrations (many in colour). Monograph on British abstract painter Sandra Blow (b.1925) tracing her artistic development from 1947-2004. Foreword by Norman Rosenthal. Also includesnotes, exhibition history, collections and chronology. Internally clean without marks or additions. Sound binding with red textured paper covered boards and stamped foil titles on the backstrip. Colour illustrated dustjacket is protected by clear plastic book wrap. Large, heavy book, due to weight (1.1 kg / 2.42 lbs + packaging) additional shipping charges are required. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Codice libro della libreria 008927 |
Insulation: Great Stuff for Energy Savings
When it comes to home improvements, many of us wait until the improvement is absolutely necessary. For example, a broken window during the chilly winter months demands a Saturday morning repair. But the small leak where the back door doesn’t quite meet the frame? Well, you’re probably hoping to get to that at some point, along with the drafty window in the family room and the weather stripping the puppy tore up along the sliding door.
Consider that 43% of a typical utility bill goes to heating and cooling and 90% of the waste of that energy is from compromises in the buildings structure and poor insulation. If you had a hole the size of a football through your wall, you would probably patch it immediately. But could all the little leaks in your home total the same surface area as a large hole? If hot and cold air can get through these cracks, you bet water can too. And critters! One of the quickest dollar-saving tasks you can do is caulk, seal, and weatherstrip all seams, cracks, and openings to the outside.
But perhaps we’re forgetting one of the biggest leaks yet: your attic. These leaks are so significant—and common—that you can receive a tax credit of 10% of the cost (up to $500) on insulation and roofing improvements that meet ENERGY STAR requirements. Though these tax breaks do not include the cost of installation, adding insulation is relatively easy and very cost effective. We recommend referencing “A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Sealing and Insulating with Energy Star” before tackling this project on your own. This booklet can be accessed online here. More details on tax credits can be found on ENERGY STAR’s website.
Not sure if you need to make repairs? Alexandria falls in climate zone 4 of the U.S. Department of Energy’s chart of recommended R-values. R-values reflect an insulation’s resistance to heat flow; the higher the R-value, the more effective the insulation. Attics of new wood-framed homes in zone 4 should have insulation levels between R38-R60. Further explanation of these values and how much insulation you need to protect your home can be found in the U.S. Department of Energy’s “Energy Saver’s Booklet.” Visit www.eere.energy.gov/consumer/tips/ to order this booklet online or to download the PDF.
If you don’t need to make major repairs, insulating foam sealants such as GREAT STUFFTM can stop air leaks easily and permanently for less than $5 a can. These products work on all kinds of surfaces including wood, metal, glass, and most plastics. Greatstuff.dow.com has helpful and entertaining videos on how to use their products. Additionally, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act allows a tax credit for using GREAT STUFFTM to improve the insulation of your home.
So, whether you’d like to fill in a few holes or make larger insulation repairs, why not begin reaping the benefits of reduced energy bills, increased comfort levels, and tax breaks? |
The sting of his cool hospitality was quickly replaced with awe as she turned back to the room.
She dropped back to her pillow and yawned The sound caught her by surprise - a blood-curdling scream that could be nothing less than a woman in agonizing pain.
You will follow this path that leads around the hill back toward the encampment.
Bismarck nevertheless continued his press campaign in favor of the temporal power until, reassured by Gambettas decision to send Roustan back to Tunis to complete as minister the anti-Italian programme begun as consul, he finally instructed his organs to emphasize the common interests of Germany and Italy on the occasion of the opening of the St Gothard tunnel.
Somewhere in the back of her mind, she might have been aware of his looks, but for some reason it hadn't been a conscious thought.
Martha bore no scars from her hectic July adventure and when news came that mother Patsy was back in the clink, she accepted it without reservation.
This horizontal movement of the lower end of the back leg allows the whole arrangement to assume the position shown in fig.
Yes, and that's a coincidence that bothers me but me might learn something if Howie and Quinn manage to go back there.
The principal places of interest on the banks of the Earn are Dunira, the favourite seat of Henry Dundas, ist Viscount Melville, who took the title of his barony from the estate and to whose memory .an obelisk was raised on the adjoining hill of Dunmore; the village of Comrie; the town of Crieff; the ruined castle of Innerpeffray, founded in 1610 by the ist Lord Maderty, close to which is the library founded in 1691 by the 3rd Lord Maderty, containing some rare black-letter books and the Bible that belonged to the marquess of Montrose; Gascon Hall, now in ruins, but with traditions reaching back to the days of Wallace; Dupplin Castle, a fine Tudor mansion, seat of the earl of Kinnoull, who derives from it the title of his viscounty; Aberdalgie, Forgandenny and Bridge of Earn, a health resort situated amidst picturesque surroundings.
I did not see why the lyceum should not present its tax-bill, and have the State to back its demand, as well as the Church. |
Willem Breuker's music is an experiencepart circus, part orchestra, part theater. The man himself is no less complex and some of his thoughts on being a musician bely his humour and good nature. At Joe's Pub this month with his long-standing Kollektief, Breuker spoke with All About Jazz. All About Jazz:
Let's start at the beginning. Willem Breuker:
I always wanted to play the piano but after the second world war Holland was a very poor country like all Western Europe. It was not possible to buy a piano so I got a clarinet. I had some lessons and later I tried to go to the music high school and was refused because they said I had no talent for music. But I always wanted to make music; that was my first thing in my life. I listened to a lot of music though I was more interested in improvising than playing charts from a book or playing notes or things that other people had done beforeto study an instrument the way they want me to do it. I was more into the result I could make myself. I learned to play the saxophone myself. I could read notes very well; I don't know why, it was just easy or a logical thing to me and I played in an orchestra in the surroundings of Amsterdam. They put me on bass clarinet because no one wanted to play on the bass clarinet...if you go out onto the streets for marches, you cannot play on the bass clarinet so you need a saxophone so they gave me a tenor saxophone and then in the meantime I bought myself an alto saxophone and in the weekends in the normal high school I changed my clarinet with a guy who had a soprano saxophone. So that was just the way I learned to play on the instruments.
And at the same time I tried to write down my musical ideas. I bought myself a fifth-rate piano, a very old thing, and I tried to compose too...in the beginning it was very hard, no one really understood what I was doing. Still, nowadays, a lot of people don't know what I'm doing but that's another question.
I had my own groups, trio, quartets; it was very hard to find people so most of the time when I was doing something I wrote down notes for classical musicians so they didn't have to improvise, they just had to play. I always went to competitions where different new jazz groups showed up. And then there was a jury and they listened to you. Most of the time, it became a scandal when I was there, because I was playing something completely different than what the other guys were doing....I immediately had a name in Holland and I found more people to play with. I found drummers like, for example, Pierre Courbois or later Han Bennink and I found Misha Mengelberg. They were still playing at that time bebop music, Han and Misha, kind of post bebop music so we set up a trio and after a while Gunter Hampel, the German vibraphonist and flutist, invited me to join his band because he heard me play. And then I played in Germany very often and then I met through [Albert] Mangelsdorff, [Peter] Br'tzmann and all the guys. That was '66-67 when it all started so it immediately became my profession. What I always had in mind, I succeeded in that. AAJ:
So you were always a multi-instrumentalist. WB:
I never worked on instruments. I never study instruments because I hate instruments actually. I have no family affair or no connection with instruments. The instrument has to work and that's all I have with it. I say sleep well after a concert, put it in the case until next time. I have nothing with instruments; I have more with thinking about music or producing music or writing music or performing music or whatever. But just the link with the instrument is not there. AAJ:
You don't want to be thought of as "tenor saxophonist" Willem Breuker. WB:
If someone asked me to play the tenor saxophone I will do that. By accident I am playing the soprano saxophone in the Kollektief because no one wants to play the soprano. It is the higher part and the soprano saxophone is a lousy instrument because it is always out of tune, you can't control it very well. So the other guys prefer to play the tenor saxophone and the lady the alto saxophone. But that's the section so sometimes I play the alto or tenor or bass clarinet or whatever. I don't care at all. Mostly soprano, but just by accident not because I want to play soprano. AAJ:
If you don't associate yourself with an instrument, did anybody influence you? |
(Updated at 12:55 p.m.) Independence Day is on Thursday and that means fireworks stands are busy with people stocking up on items to light up the night. But before buying certain types of fireworks that could lead to an encounter with the law, check out the guidelines from the Arlington County Fire Department.
Although ACFD notes that the safest way for residents to enjoy fireworks is to attend a public display by a trained professional, it recognizes that many people will purchase their own. To avoid facing prosecution for illegal fireworks, use the following guidelines listed in the county code:
- Fireworks must have a hard-coated or slow burning fuse that measures at least one-and-a-half inches long, with a burning rate of at least four seconds.
- Fireworks that are projectiles or emit flames or sparks in excess of 12 feet are prohibited.
- Residents must be at least 18 years old to purchase fireworks.
- Arlington County uses the same guidelines as Fairfax County, which has posted an extensive list online of approved fireworks.
ACFD also refers residents to the following general safety tips for handling fireworks, compiled by FEMA and the U.S. Fire Administration:
- Never allow children to play with or ignite fireworks. Sparklers, considered by many the ideal “safe” firework for the young, burn at very high temperatures and can easily ignite clothing. Children cannot understand the danger involved and cannot act appropriately in case of emergency.
- Read and follow all warnings and instructions.
- Be sure other people are out of range before lighting fireworks. Never shoot a firework at or near another person.
- Only light fireworks on a smooth, flat surface away from the house, dry leaves, and flammable materials.
- Never try to re-light fireworks that have not fully functioned. Douse and soak them with water and throw them away.
- Keep a bucket of water handy in case of a malfunction or fire.
- Never ignite fireworks in a container, especially a glass or metal container.
- Keep unused fireworks away from firing areas.
- Store fireworks in a dry, cool place. Check instructions for special storage directions.
- Observe local laws.
- Never have any portion of your body directly over a firework while lighting.
- Don’t experiment with homemade fireworks. |
National Program 215: Pasture, Forage and Rangeland Systems
Pasture, Forage and Rangeland Systems This program develops and integrates improved management practices, germplasm, and land-use strategies to optimize economic viability and environmental enhancement in managing vegetation, livestock and natural resources on private and public lands. Research activities include: enhancing conservation and restoration of ecosystems and agroecosystems through improvements based on the application of ecological principles; improving management of fire, invasive weeds, grazing, global change and other agents of ecological change; developing grazing-based livestock systems that reduce risk and increase profitability in existing and emerging markets; developing improved grass and forage legume germplasm for livestock, conservation, turf and bioenergy and bioproduct systems; and improving decision-support systems including improving inventory, monitoring, and assessment tools.
Projects in this Program - by State
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How ambition is a main theme in macbeth and how it ultimately destroyed him.
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Ambition is the Undoing
All hail, MacBeth, hail to thee, thane of Glamis.
All hail, MacBeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor
All hail, MacBeth, that shalt be king hereafter.
These three prophecies, made from three old witches, interject that MacBeth will be thane of Glamis (which he is), thane of Cawdor and the King hereafter.
When Ross and Angus bring him news that confirmed the second prophecy that MacBeth has been made thane of Cawdor, he is amazed that the witches spoke the truth and he immediately thinks of the third prophecy- himself becoming king and contemplates the possibilit…
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The Learning Center is a computer-based training facility providing resources and opportunities that support the daily educational needs of Berklee students. The facility offers small-to-large group instruction rooms with Apple computer workstations. Each station is outfitted with software ranging from music sequencing, notation, and multimedia production to word processing and web browsing. Continually offering training sessions on software located both in the facility and on the students’ laptops, the trainers and peer tutors take a hands-on approach to teaching students in a classroom or one-on-one setting. As a complement to the training sessions, the software is further discussed in ongoing forums that cover popular software and hardware topics and are led by faculty, Learning Center staff, upper-semester students, and software company representatives. The Learning Center also offers a core music-tutoring program where students receive help in their general music classes from academically qualified upper-semester students. For more information, visit http://learningcenter.berklee.edu. |
Jesus Forgives and Heals a Paralytic
1And again #Matt. 9:1He entered Capernaum after some days, and it was heard that He was in the house. 2Immediately many gathered together, so that there was no longer room to receive them, not even near the door. And He preached the word to them. 3Then they came to Him, bringing a #Matt. 4:24; 8:6; Acts 8:7; 9:33paralytic who was carried by four men. 4And when they could not come near Him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where He was. So when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralytic was lying.
5When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”
6And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, 7“Why does this Man speak blasphemies like this? #Job 14:4; Is. 43:25; Dan. 9:9Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
8But immediately, when Jesus perceived in His spirit that they reasoned thus within themselves, He said to them, “Why do you reason about these things in your hearts? 9#Matt. 9:5Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk’? 10But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the paralytic, 11“I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.” 12Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the presence of them all, so that all were amazed and #Matt. 15:31; (Phil. 2:11)glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”
Matthew the Tax Collector
13#Matt. 9:9Then He went out again by the sea; and all the multitude came to Him, and He taught them. 14#Matt. 9:9–13; Luke 5:27–32As He passed by, He saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, #Matt. 4:19; 8:22; 19:21; John 1:43; 12:26; 21:22“Follow Me.” So he arose and #Luke 18:28followed Him.
15#Matt. 9:10Now it happened, as He was dining in Levi’s house, that many tax collectors and sinners also sat together with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many, and they followed Him. 16And when the scribes and Pharisees saw Him eating with the tax collectors and sinners, they said to His disciples, “How is it that He eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”
17When Jesus heard it, He said to them, #Matt. 9:12, 13; 18:11; Luke 5:31, 32; 19:10“Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
Jesus Is Questioned About Fasting
18#Matt. 9:14–17; Luke 5:33–38The disciples of John and of the Pharisees were fasting. Then they came and said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but Your disciples do not fast?”
19And Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast. 20But the days will come when the bridegroom will be #Acts 1:9; 13:2, 3; 14:23taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days. 21No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; or else the new piece pulls away from the old, and the tear is made worse. 22And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins.”
Jesus Is Lord of the Sabbath
23#Matt. 12:1–8; Luke 6:1–5Now it happened that He went through the grainfields on the Sabbath; and as they went His disciples began #Deut. 23:25to pluck the heads of grain. 24And the Pharisees said to Him, “Look, why do they do what is #Ex. 20:10; 31:15not lawful on the Sabbath?”
25But He said to them, “Have you never read #1 Sam. 21:1–6what David did when he was in need and hungry, he and those with him: 26how he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the showbread, #Ex. 29:32, 33; Lev. 24:5–9which is not lawful to eat except for the priests, and also gave some to those who were with him?”
27And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the #Gen. 2:3; Ex. 23:12; Deut. 5:14; Neh. 9:14; Ezek. 20:12Sabbath. 28Therefore #Matt. 12:8the Son of Man is also Lord of the Sabbath.” |
Numbers 21New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
Israel Destroys Arad
21 The Canaanite king of the city of Arad lived in the Negev Desert. He heard that Israel was coming along the road to Atharim. So he attacked the Israelites. He captured some of them. 2 Then Israel made a promise to the Lord. They said, “Hand these people over to us. If you do, we will set their cities apart to you in a special way to be destroyed.” 3 The Lord gave Israel what they asked for. He handed the Canaanites over to them. Israel completely destroyed them and their towns. So that place was named Hormah.
Moses Makes a Bronze Snake
4 The Israelites traveled from Mount Hor along the way to the Red Sea. They wanted to go around Edom. But they grew tired on the way. 5 So they spoke against God and against Moses. They said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt? Do you want us to die here in the desert? We don’t have any bread! We don’t have any water! And we hate this awful food!”
6 Then the Lord sent poisonous snakes among the Israelites. The snakes bit them. Many of the people died. 7 The others came to Moses. They said, “We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.
8 The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake. Put it up on a pole. Then anyone who is bitten can look at it and remain alive.” 9 So Moses made a bronze snake. He put it up on a pole. Then anyone who was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake remained alive.
The People Continue On to Moab
10 The Israelites moved on. They camped at Oboth. 11 Then they started out from Oboth. They camped in Iye Abarim. It’s in the desert on the eastern border of Moab. 12 From there they moved on. They camped in the Zered Valley. 13 They started out from there and camped by the Arnon River. It’s in the desert that spreads out into the territory of the Amorites. The Arnon is the border of Moab. It’s between Moab and the Amorites. 14 Here is what the Book of the Wars of the Lord says about it.
“Sing about Zahab in Suphah and the valleys.
16 From there the Israelites continued on to Beer. That was the well where the Lord spoke to Moses. He said, “Gather the people together. I will give them water to drink.”
17 Then Israel sang a song. They said,
“Spring up, you well!
Then the Israelites went from the desert to Mattanah. 19 They went from Mattanah to Nahaliel. They went from Nahaliel to Bamoth. 20 And they went from Bamoth to a valley in Moab. It’s the valley where the highest slopes of Pisgah look out over a dry and empty land.
Israel Wins the Battle Over Sihon and Og
21 The Israelites sent messengers to speak to Sihon. He was the king of the Amorites. The messengers said to him,
22 “Let us pass through your country. We won’t go off the road into any field or vineyard. We won’t drink water from any well. We’ll travel along the King’s Highway. We’ll just go straight through your territory.”
23 But Sihon wouldn’t let Israel pass through his territory. He gathered his whole army together. Then he marched out into the desert against Israel. When he reached Jahaz, he fought against Israel. 24 But Israel put him to death with their swords. They took over his land. They took everything from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River. But they didn’t take over any of the land of the Ammonites. That’s because the Ammonites had built strong forts along their border. 25 The Israelites captured all the cities of the Amorites. Then they settled down in them. They captured the city of Heshbon. They also captured all the settlements around it. 26 Sihon, the king of the Amorites, ruled in Heshbon. He had fought against an earlier king of Moab. Sihon had taken from him all his land all the way to the Arnon River.
27 That’s why the poets say,
“Come to Heshbon. Let it be built again.
28 “Fire went out from Heshbon.
30 “But we have taken them over.
31 So Israel settled in the land of the Amorites.
32 Moses sent spies to the city of Jazer. The Israelites captured the settlements around it. They drove out the Amorites who were there. 33 Then they turned and went up along the road toward Bashan. Og was the king of Bashan. He and his whole army marched out. They went to fight against Israel at Edrei.
34 The Lord said to Moses, “Do not be afraid of Og. I have handed him over to you. I have given you his whole army. I have also given you his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon, the king of the Amorites. He ruled in Heshbon.”
35 So the Israelites struck down Og and his sons. And they wiped out his whole army. They didn’t leave anyone alive. They took over his land for themselves.
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RV Corystes COR14/94
Cruise summary report
|Ship name (ship code)||RV Corystes (74RY)|
|Cruise period||1994-11-24 — 1994-12-07|
|Port of departure||Lowestoft, United Kingdom|
|Port of return||Lowestoft, United Kingdom|
|Objectives||1. To test and calibrate the sector scanning sonar transducer following refurbishment.
2. To test the telemetry tag decoder and to test 34kHz transponder.
3. To estimate (for the Data Storage Tag programme) the survival of plaice caught by 4m beam trawl.
4. To estimate (for the Data Storage Tag programme) the effects of tagging at sea with dummy DSTs on survival of plaice caught by 4m beam trawl.
5. To measure pressure on the sea bed with data storage tags to provide test data from known positions for the hydrographic models used in the Data Storage Tag programme.
6. To estimate swimming speed and orientation of place on their pre-spawning migration by simultaneous use of the sector scanning sonar and the ADCP.
|Chief scientist||Julian David Metcalfe (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory)|
|Cruise report||(0.33 MB)|
|Specific||Southern North Sea|
|Current profiler (eg ADCP)||Quantity: activity duration in days = 13|
Description: fish (plaice) swimming speed determination
|Biology and fisheries|
|Demersal fish||Quantity: activity duration in days = 13|
Description: behavioural studies in plaice
|Taggings||Quantity: activity duration in days = 13|
Description: tests with data storage tags on fish
|Geology and geophysics|
|Long/short range side scan sonar||Quantity: activity duration in days = 13|
Description: determination of fish swimming speed |
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